On 4/13/06, Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > So, how is the general consensus of economists a reflection of > fundamentalism? Is there an example you can provide of a new theory that > has been well verified experimentally that has been rejected because it > conflicts with old theories?
I don't know what you think I was talking about, but it certainly had little or nothing to do with any consensus of non-ideological economists, who tend to be among the best critics of our systems. I was referring to the non-scholarly idea that the market is *the* bottom line for many issues, that our political-economic system is as good as it gets, it only needs further adoption and refinement, but no fundamental changes. I believe that networks, in the many meanings of that word, are already demonstrating the incompleteness of economic fundamentalism as it exists in the western world today. And I think they'll be its downfall, which may be slow and relatively invisible, or perhaps cataclysmic. Nick -- Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Messages: 408-904-7198 _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
