Greetings Economists,
A simple statement put into a list produces what sort of product?
On Jan 30, 2009, at 7:43 PM, Sabri Oncu wrote:
I don't understand how such a simple and straightforward statement I
made turned into such a complicated discussion.
Doyle;
What do you expect of the list? I would say here that I would want if
I made some statement that it lead to say agreement with someone and
we work together based on that. The list provides no means to 'work
together'. So everyone offers their perspective and if enough people
say something it keeps generating more opinions. So that is the work
process.
I think your question is rhetorical rather than seeking an answer. I
think the answer is rather obvious in an economic sense. What is the
work here? What is the outcome?
Agreement is the central feature of advancing a statement to more than
one person. What makes that happen? An office, or a magazine, or
any number of 'shops' generate words and there is some sort of work
division of labor to achieve some result. In the contemporary
context, a successful community effort that works on a simple
statement would be wikipedia. But there are other sorts of efforts
with similar goals. For example agreeing on describing a given life
species is another community project. A single statement is needed in
say describing cats. So if you want to 'generate' a process that
makes a simple statement evolve beyond an individual throwing a scrap
of thought in a pile of emails one has to determine a process of
agreement that can bind two or more people into the work process to
make that simple statement.
thanks,
Doyle Saylor
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