Jay,
What is really interesting is not only that Thurow is right, but the fact
that maverick economists have been pointing out that the neo-classical
economic emperor has no clothes for quite some time - looking at my
bookshelves I see Capitalism, Socialisma ndDemocracy by Joseph Schumpeter
A few comments on the recent dialogue on definitions.
All paradigm shifts involve changes to the language
new meanings for old words
entirely new words
Old words carry the baggage of the old paradigm in their etymology. They
therefore make it very difficult to escpape the old
From: Ruben F.W. Nelson
Sent: July 24, 1998 12:36 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject:RE: The Great Canadian Search for Futurists
I need your help.
Square One Management Ltd. has been asked by the Policy Research
Secretariat, Ottawa, to compile a Directory of Canadian Futurists.
Re: Ed and Eva's exchange:
Capitalist ambition seems to be a transmuted form of ascent, where
spiritual ascent is replaced by symbolic ascent or ascent in other forms
e.g. progress.
Capitalism seems to flourish during periods when there is an emphasis
within the culture on people as individuals,
Ed,
Thanks for the reply.
I'm not sure that I agree you interpretation of what brought the era to a
close. Certainly, the actions taken by the official church were important,
and undoubtedly many an ecological niche was used up by the water and
charcoal based technology of the time. However,
.
arthur cordell
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From: Edward Weick
To: Cordell, Arthur: DPP; Michael Gurstein; Mike Hollinshead
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Krugman and the Austrians
Date: Monday, February 01, 1999 1:15PM
I must be missing something. I haven't read much of Krugman, just "Peddling
Prosp
Hydrogen already is produced on a large scale using heat, pressure and a
catalyst, from natural gas. It is an intermediate product in the
manufacture of certain petrochemicals. We make huge quanitities here in
Alberta already - for petrochemicals and to hydrogenate heavy oil.
As to
Odell is a geographer. It was because he was unencumbered by the
assumptions of economists that he was able to forecast both the spiking and
the collapsing of oil prices.
According to Marchetti (see IIASA references) global consumption of natural
gas as a proportion of total consumption will
For an answer to what I now name "The Lump of Samuelson Fallacy" (I thought
of something entirely more biting to begin with but decided to be polite),
please see my previous post about Krugman and the Austrians (below).
Samuelson has been one of the greatest disasters to befall economics. It
is
Regarding the subject of what is science and definitions which emphasized
observation and rejection of theories when counter factual data is
presented, I thought the two following documents would be of interest.
Scientists do not as a rule observe and then theorize. They typically do
it the
Very interesting, Ray.
In fact, my reading of the history of religious revivals and awakenings in
North America has taught me that it is precisely children abandoning the
parents fallen gods that is one of the essences of these events.
Adolescents are the primary leaders and followers of the new
Ray,
This is really important. It is something I have wrestled with in the
book. The whole basis for political legitimacy in the industrial age is
property - at first land and latterly machines and buildings. Economists
and lawyers have tried to deal with the issue you raise by creating the
Very interesting, Ray.
In fact, my reading of the history of religious revivals and awakenings in
North America has taught me that it is precisely children abandoning the
parents fallen gods that is one of the essences of these events.
Adolescents are the primary leaders and followers of the new
Jay,
It is no more scientifically true than that the sun and planets revolve
around the earth.
What is really funny is that Darwin purloined his principle of selection
through competition from classical economics, from Malthus in fact. So you
take the dog eat dog mythology of early capitalism
Mike Gurstein just posted a piece on the closure of Devco in Cape Breton
Canfutures, in which are to be found these two paragraphs, describing
frictions in the labour market and wealth effects which Krugman claims not
to exist.
Mike H
The emotion that greeted Premier Russell MacLellan Friday in
Douglas,
One major problem you are going to run into is the inability of non-chaotic
systems models to generate surprise (like innovations) as such models are
completely defined. Innovation is one of the major factors from the human
side and Mother Nature has tricks up her sleeve too. Any
Tim,
I too have been observing Ed's posts - for several years. He is honest,
fair minded and no racist. You completely misunderstood his post. Your
reaction is completely over the top and gratuitiously offensive. We do not
get personal on this board or tell people to shut up.
Please clean
I don't think I am a conspiracy theorist, but I know enough about the role
of agents provocateurs in history to wonder if the vandals in Seattle were
all that people assume them to be.
Mike
Ed,
In a parallel posting directed at Tim Rourke I've indicated that I agree
with your main point about
Ed,
The notion that the meshing of economies through trade and business would
ensure peace was prevalent in the 1920s. It was an argument used by people
opposed to the League of Nations. It didn't work very well then and I
doubt that it will work very well now. Competition for resources is a
I said in a previous post to Ed Weick "The whole comparative advantage
argument for free trade is bogus, even from the point of view of national
economic development (a subject for a future post)."
Here is that future post, in the form of an exerpt from my new book, The
Myth of Canada.
"Not
not in Alberta ?
Mike
Mike Hollinshead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't think I am a conspiracy theorist, but I know enough about the role
of agents provocateurs in history to wonder if the vandals in Seattle were
all that people assume them to be.
So does that make me paranoid when that was my first
Now here is something positive. I am with the new Vikings and can really
relate to the dissonance between the Swedish and English attitudes. My
first child was born in Scotland and I wasn't even allowed in the hospital
never mind the birthing room. In Canada I coached my wife through the next
One story of the origins of Scientology goes as follows.
Ron Hubbard, the founder, was having a drink with the boys and shooting the
breeze about religion and Ron said "Anybody can start a religion. I could
start a religion." "Bet you can't." "Bet I can." Ron won the bet.
Hm. I don't know, Ed
Sound exactly like the conditions in England in which the Grand National
Consolidated Union of the 1820s was created. Remember nine were
transported to Australia for their temerity - the Tolpuddle Martyrs. Don't
forget the Peterloo Massacre of 1819 either. This was a
Ed,
The more you describe what you believe to have been the situation
historically in Europe, the more I see parallels in contemporay East Asia,
India and Latin America. Tremendous technological change forcing
tremendous economic and social change, and, instead of the philosophes the
Modern
Hi Ed,
I agree with the role of plunder and greed in the English Industrial
Revolution. They played a role. But it has not been true of all
industrial revolutions. There was no plundering and greed in the medieval
European industrial revolution. The driving actors were a religious order
(the
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