Loet wrote:
Yes: because the economy is equilibrating. Innovations upset the tendency
towards equilibrium (Schumpeter) and thus induce cycles into the economy.
This is the very subject of evolutionary economics.
Marx's problem was that the cycles cannot be stopped and have a tendency
to
reply to Karl:
In fact I meant it creates informational entropy for an external observer.
For the sake of precision, we may say that diversity neither get created nor it
is always there - it evolves - initially there was no diversity at all, than
it increased discontinuously in evolutionary
Guy wrote: I agree with Loet and Pedro that it seems important to
distinguish between
environmental constraints (including material constraints emanating from
the
qualities of components of a system) and self-imposed limitations
associated
with the particular path taken as a dynamical system
Dear Pedro
the mediation of markets for the production and distribution of goods and
services that serve the majority of human needs is possible also outside of
the capitalistic system, albeit its dynamics is then slower and the rate of
novelty and technological change it may generate is
Dear Pedro
regarding social openness: very tenuous rumor may destroy an entire company,
or put a sector on its knees.. This can only happen if there is a
fundamental reason for the company or the sector to get into trouble (e.g. time
before the collapse the WorldCom had been in financial
Reply to Steven and Ted
By genetic constraints I assume you simply mean that we have certain
capacities and are not omnipotent. Is not conflict and war an indicator
of our individual failure to manage social complexity? Or would you argue
that war is social complexity management?
I was
Dear All
I agree with Pedro's perspective, it looks very reasonable from the
standpoint of social sciences.
I would like to put a question to Joe and other colleagues regarding the
constraints of managing social complexity (whatever, objective or
perceived). Humanity has reached a high
I am sorry for crossposting - but it seams that the message was rejected by the
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Subject: [Fis] INTRODUCING SOCIAL AND CULTURAL COMPLEXITY[Fis] INTRODUCING
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Stan wrote:
.. At present I am considering that, if we allocate the same energies at
each level, then the remaining degrees of freedom in the higher levels will
benefit from having stronger embodiment than would have been possible in the
lower levels.That is to say that, e.g., behaviors which
