Re: Theory of Perverse Government Tangents

My only trouble with the Warnick theory is whether it holds up under empirical scrutiny. As a senior career official in the Office of Management and Budget and two or three cabinet agencies, I witnessed the success and durability of many tangents including PPB (Program, Planning, and Budgeting), MB

Re: Is a non-optimizing organism evolutionarily viable?

--- john hull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is an organism that routinely fails to optimize > evolutionarily viable? Human beings, for example? Fred Foldvary = [EMAIL PROTECTED]