Re: simulating ownership and democracy

1998-12-06 Thread Edward Weick
It's hard to answer anything but "maybe" to these questions, which doesn't really satisfy me. "Ownership" is quite an abstract concept, and for all that Marxists talked about materialism they sure attached a lot of importance to something so abstract. Back to some rudeness. I'm really

Re: simulating ownership and democracy

1998-12-06 Thread Durant
is it all based on the present ownership mode? Can your scheme simulate a system based on a different economic base, such as common ownership? It's hard to answer anything but "maybe" to these questions, which doesn't really satisfy me. "Ownership" is quite an abstract concept, and

simulating ownership and democracy

1998-12-05 Thread Douglas P. Wilson
Eva Durant asked I admit I did not follow this thread thoroughly, but I have a question: How do you collect your initial data, Anywhere I can find it. I have several back issues of the CIA World Fact Book (text files on CD-ROM) which will provide some basic data about population, income,