I think one of the useful arguments in this vein is the one often lobbed against the concept of a free market. There is no such thing; and there will/can never be such a thing. So, your question seems to assume there is a "true" economy by comparison to the "false" economies (or an upside right one vs an upside down one). What makes you _believe_ ... where lies your faith in true or upside right economies? Maybe your Utopian homunculus has broken free of its chains?
This is, I think, different from the "best of all possible world"... It's more like a rejection of a stable landscape. There are no optima ... or perhaps all optima are local (in time, space, and sub-graph)? On 04/25/2017 03:22 PM, Steven A Smith wrote: > Will we have something like a thermal inversion where all these false > economies turn back right side up? Or is this the "curmudgeon" in me > thinking it is "wrong-side up". I suppose there are (Panglossian?) arguments > to be made: "all is for the best" in the "best of all possible worlds > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_of_all_possible_worlds>". I hear this > from many of my Trumpian friends (on topics like climate change denial, > misogyny, etc.) -- ☣ glen ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
