Greetings Economists, On Nov 1, 2007, at 7:36 PM, raghu wrote:
I don't see how you get this from the article. Who do you refer to in "it is viewed as technic"?
Doyle; The journalist writing the article is using 'reductionism' as a word to describe a technique of doing research on how biology works. There is no 'metaphysics' of reductionism in the journalists article, and the editors of the magazine 'vetted' the article to be a technique. I mean technique in the sense the assembly line is a technical method of production, but not a metaphysics of capitalist economics. The biological companies themselves, drug production, etc. can use their organizations to build drugs around a systemic approach. Hence there is no commitment to an ideological reductionism to the business. In other words, the Economist magazine reflects that their staff sees no metaphysics of reductionism, they see a technique of business arising in various businesses using systemic methods based upon biological research as the results of reductionist methods can't systemize what is known about biology. thanks, Doyle Saylor
