On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 9:52 AM, david buchanan <[email protected]>wrote:
dmb says: > The irony in Platt's convoluted nonsense is that systems theory is used > quite extensively to support and explain free market economics, social > darwinism and Adam Smith's invisible hand. It is used to justify Platt's > ideology. It says humans act out of rationally calculated self-interest so > that each individual is the "part" while the economy is the "whole". All > these individual selfish acts add up to a functioning structure, they say. Well driving back from the coast today, listened to the whole Bob Brinker's Money Talk. Twice. He sure had a lot to say on this subject, as well as his guest with a book to shill: Fool's Gold: How the Bold Dream of a Small Tribe at J.P. Morgan Was Corrupted by Wall Street Greed and Unleashed a Catastrophe (Hardcover) by Gillian Tett<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?%5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Gillian%20Tett> (Author) I'd say for quite a while now, any such "free hand" is going to have a hard time getting play in any govt hall. John -- ------------ The self is a point along a dynamic continuum, evolving toward Quality by Choice. ------------ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
