I feel certain I've seen that name before, maybe in the citations for reports on the models of evolutionary economics I once worked on? I don't know. But now I *must* read a little deeper.
Tomgram: Ann Jones, Our Veblen Momen https://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/176550/ > Of course, Veblen, who could build a house with his own hands, imagined a > working world free of such predators. He envisioned an innovative industrial > world in which the labor of producing goods would be performed by machines > tended by technicians and engineers. In the advanced factories of his mind’s > eye, there was no role, no place at all, for the predatory Business Man. Yet > Veblen also knew that the natural-born predator of Gilded Age America was > already creating a kind of scaffolding of financial transactions above and > beyond the factory floor -- a lattice of loans, credits, capitalizations, and > the like -- so that he could then take advantage of the “disruptions” of > production caused by such encumbrances to seize yet more profits. In a pinch, > the predator was, as Veblen saw it, always ready to go further, to throw a > wrench into the works, to move into the role of outright “Saboteur.” > -- ☣ uǝlƃ ============================================================ 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 archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
