----- Original Message ----- From: Carrol Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Thus it is possible that these nuts are correct in > respect to a capitalist economy -- there can never be an even remotely > egalitarian distribution of wealth (or allocation of labor) within > capitalism. right, but these "nuts" never put into their theories --at least the ones i have seen -- the "molecular dynamics" that model, for example, who gets the police and army when one group of atoms wants to demand more money from another group of atoms at a factory. my sense of the econophysics crowd is they model the higher order effects -- exchange information and such -- while skipping the whole set of lower order effects, like badges, guns, and (labor and corporate) laws. can you imagine air molecules bunched into two classes, one with a standing army, ones with sticks and clubs? imagine you pulled the standing army out of the equation. would the real system remain in the same equilibrium solely by virtue of information exchanges between parties? les schaffer
