Category Archives for Economics
The Information Ecology of Humans, part 1
This paper aims to present tools to understand humans and their communities as information systems. Briefly, for those who are not familiar with this model, basic concrete and abstract things are understood as the “vocabulary” of a language, and these … Continue reading
Méfiez vous de ceux qui disent qu’ils y sont arrivés tout seuls
J’entends beaucoup de monde chiâler sur les étudiants en grêve et affirmer que eux “ils y sont arrivés tout seuls”. Voyons voir quelle part de leur succès d’études post secondaires ils peuvent vraiment revendiquer. Pour des raisons géo-socioéconomiques, environ 30% … Continue reading
Governments, corporations, Right-Left politics and the one party system of Western democracies.
There is increasing effort to divide people along the Left-Right divide, and make this division more acrid and irreconcilable. Careful observation, however, shows that there are two types of Left, and two types of Right. On the Left, you have … Continue reading
Failure in Economics
First things first, what is economic activity? I like to think it is activity dedicated to satisfying the needs and wants of the people involved in this activity. In small hunter gatherer tribes, people’s sense of interconnection and interdependence is … Continue reading