I believe the Allende government in Chile made substantial efforts to
"design" its economy, with the aid of British computer seer Stafford Beer
At 01:59 PM 10/2/98 +0100, Eva wrote:
>I wasn't aware that the present - or indeed
>any economic system before, besides
>the autocratically planned USSR style
>ones, were "designed".
>It is all a chaotic mess, and it should
>be quite clear now that it cannot be controlled
>or manipulated to provide all what human kind needs for
>a sustainable and universally satisfactory survival.
>
>Eva
Some people are using the words "Chaordic or holarchical"
Chaordic from chaos/order
Holon being the concept of Koestler that models nature:
EVERYTHING being composed of holons (wholes/parts) like
atoms/molecules/cells -- everything all the way up (to God?) and all the
way down to the minutest sub-particle that man has yet to discover
Some web pointers to this subject, which I believe will develop quickly in
the next few decades:
John Raven's "A New Wealth of Nations" at http://www.npsnet.com/cdd/nwn.htm
points at more general solutions to governance problems.
Chaordic or holarchical (Wilber/Koestler) management systems:
http://www.cascadepolicy.org/dee_hock
http://www.funderstanding.com/mailing1.htm
Ken Wilber's books are featured at:
http://www.shambhala.com/wilber
Colin Stark
