I have formed the opinion that this working paper is
really a rather excellent specimen of the genre. I
usually have very little patience indeed with the Paul
Ormerod approach, but I really quite like this one.
http://www.arxiv.org/PS_cache/cond-mat/pdf/0401/0401053.pdf
Is it actually interestin
Can anyone out there please point me in the direction of a bio of Pareto
wherein his relationship to fascism is spelled out?
Thanx
Ian
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I have formed the opinion that this working paper is
really a rather excellent specimen of the genre. I
usually have very little patience indeed with the Paul
Ormerod approach, but I really quite like this one.
http://www.arxiv.org/PS_cache
Ian wrote:
Can anyone out there please point me in the direction of a bio of Pareto
wherein his relationship to fascism is spelled out?
MK replies:
Don't know if anyone followed this up, but a few years ago I read a very
useful book entitled "Modern Italian Social Theory" by Richard Bellamy,
pu
< http://www.nature.com/nsu/020121/020121-14.html >
Sample of hilarity:
"For a social economy, there is a threshold average wealth above
which Pareto's law collapses and one person can garner a
significant proportion of the total wealth. Burda's team calls this
a "physical mechanism for corrupti
Hirschman, Albert O. 1991. The Rhetoric of Reaction: Perversity, Futility,
Jeopardy (Cambridge: Harvard University Press) covers the same crowd quite
well. It is a thin book, but quite good for what it does.
Keaney Michael wrote:
> Ian wrote:
>
> Can anyone out there please point me in the dire
It's only "thin" in being concise. Most of Hirschman's writings are terse, elegant,
concise, laconic, and crystalline. This is another of his marvels of compressed
erudition. --jks
In a message dated Fri, 1 Sep 2000 10:16:25 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Michael Perelman
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I thought that it was thin compared to his other books because the scope
was narrow.
>
> It's only "thin" in being concise. Most of Hirschman's writings are terse, elegant,
>concise, laconic, and crystalline. This is another of his marvels of compressed
>erudition. --jks
>
> In a message dated
