Re: <nettime> Nobel laureate in economics aged 102 endorses the human economy...

[John Hopkins <jhopkins@neoscenes.net>]

hehe Mark

> Economics is in *trouble* (like the rest of social science) because
> it leaves out basic realities and these "simplifications" -- whether
> in the service of "modeling assumptions" or whatever -- have now
> become too important to ignore. By emphasizing the HUMANS, you have
> correctly noted *one* of the parts left out. However, the humans
> are highly "plastic" and largely shaped by their environment --
> which, in turn, is mostly defined by technology. Do you discuss this
> *environmental* effect on humans in your book?

Although I am haven't the time to promote and explore the application
a wholistic approach like 'living systems theory' or 'general system
theory' to such issues, I believe that those intellectual tools
could easily take on the scope and connectivity (immersiveness, etc)
of our reality in a way that is, imho, wider than any particular
considerations or efficacy of discipline-specific carcases, uff, I
mean models, such as you folks are picking over here.

For those who are not familiar with GST +/- -- you might consult
Ludwig von Bertalanffy, James R. Simms, James & Jessie Miller (for
example, the following references)

Bertalanffy, L. von, 1975. Perspectives on general system theory:
scientific-philosophical studies, New York, NY: G. Braziller.

Miller, J., 1995. Living systems, Niwot, CO: University Press of
Colorado.

Simms, J.R., 1999. Principles of quantitative living systems science,
New York, NY: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.

jh
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