Re: [Fis] Continuing Discussion of Social and Cultural Complexity

2007-02-27 Thread Guy A Hoelzer
Greetings, I agree with Loet and Pedro that it seems important to distinguish between environmental constraints (including material constraints emanating from the qualities of components of a system) and self-imposed limitations associated with the particular path taken as a dynamical system unfol

Re: [Fis] Continuing Discussion of Social and Cultural Complexity

2007-02-27 Thread Pedro Marijuan
Dear colleagues, As for the first track (planning vs. markets) I would try to plainly put the informational problem in terms of "distinction on the adjacent" (Guy has also argued in a similar vein). Social structures either in markets or in central plans become facultative instances of network