{"id":35,"date":"2004-02-19T08:41:34","date_gmt":"2004-02-19T08:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.truth.posiweb.net\/notes\/?p=35"},"modified":"2004-02-19T08:41:34","modified_gmt":"2004-02-19T08:41:34","slug":"complex-adaptive-systems-and-political-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2004\/02\/19\/complex-adaptive-systems-and-political-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Complex Adaptive Systems and political economy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Below are two sets of notes. The first on Philip Ball’s Critical Mass: A new Physics of Society<\/a>. The second on Dan’s thesis Do we need nature?<\/a>. This title is taken from the Economist\/Shell essay competition<\/a>, by the way. The winner of this year’s competition is a sharp retort to the question Do we need nature?<\/i> – An interview with a Fungus on the topic Do we need mankind?<\/a> Containing the marvellous observation (by the fungus)<\/p>\n

<\/i>Poor quality information tends to ferment into low-grade entertainment. Under the sulphurous glare of continuous, worldwide news broadcasts, human institutions ? government, military, religious, the culture itself ? became subjects of human amusement. This unrelenting, self-referential entertainment left a large part of mankind chronically inebriated and fundamentally uneducable.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There’s more. It’s a good read. But not strictly relevant to these notes, which cover the application of systems theory to economics and politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Below are two sets of notes. The first on Philip Ball’s Critical Mass: A new Physics of Society. The second on Dan’s thesis Do we need nature?. This title is taken from the Economist\/Shell essay competition, by the way. The winner of this year’s competition is a sharp retort to the question Do we need […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5KQtW-z","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}