Category Archives for Economics

The Information Ecology of Humans, part 1

28. May 2012

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

28. May 2012 by Stéphane Beaudin
Categories: Economics, English, Information Ecology, Politics | Leave a comment

Méfiez vous de ceux qui disent qu’ils y sont arrivés tout seuls

15. May 2012

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

15. May 2012 by Stéphane Beaudin
Categories: Economics, Français | 1 comment

Governments, corporations, Right-Left politics and the one party system of Western democracies.

27. July 2011

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

27. July 2011 by Stéphane Beaudin
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Failure in Economics

04. August 2010

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

04. August 2010 by Stéphane Beaudin
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