Dear All (Ray, Ed and Brad particularly),
Apologies to all FWers for my mistake. A clear sign of a decomposing
hippocampus (short-term memory) in a decrepit old man. However, I hope my
frontal lobes -- that is, brain cells involved in judgement -- are still
in good nick.
Sorry if I threw any of you.
Also, while I am still in the apology department, I hope FWers will
excuse the many grammatical solecisms I made in writing my latest piece
"The fallacy of democracy". It was written at speed late in the
evening after a busy day. For those who would like to see a tidied-up
version, it appears on my website (see address below).
While I'm at it, I would also like to crave the attention of any FWers
who have a mind to assist in the evolution of my website. Apart from
trying to find a single-storey residence (that is, without a staircase up
which I can scarcely climb these days), my final objective in life is to
launch a book on the world which will encapsulate what I think are the
really vital elements of economics instead of all the flim-flam that we
too frequently read these days. The message I have is summarised in the
double-columned text on the Home Page and is a radical one (radical in
its true sense of the word).
My website is, in fact, a carrot with which to tempt a publisher. Because
I have no formal credentials in economics without a network of academic
pals, I do not have an inside track nor do I have any intention of
hawking a synopsis round the houses in the usual way and accumulating
rejection slips. The one book I have had published in the past
("Introduction to Computer-Assisted Learning", Chapman and
Hall, 1984) was commissioned in the days when computers were becoming all
the rage and no self-respecting publisher could be seen without a decent
list of computer books. Since writing on Futurework in the last seven
years or so, I have also been asked twice more to write a book to fit
publishers' purposes, but declined because my ideas were still in a state
of transition and I was enjoying myself too much in trying them out on
this excellent facility supplied free of charge by Sally and
Arthur.
Graphically, the present E-E website is a crude one, got together very
quickly during odd moments. In view of the fact that, to my surprise, it
is getting a large numbers of visitors (almost doubling every month since
it started in July) and is progressing to the top of Google searches,
then it won't be too long before publishers or agents come across
it. Accordingly, I would like to make the site a more professional
job, graphically and otherwise, before this happens. I have only just
started to re-design the site (offline) and it will be a few more weeks
before it appears but, if any FWers would like to dip in now and again
and give me feedback as to how it can be improved or pages added then I
would be most grateful.
Keith Hudson
Keith Hudson, Bath, England,
<www.evolutionary-economics.org>
