Learning Stories
by
Mario deSantis
mariodesantis@hotmail.com
“I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, and free to choose those who shall govern my country.” - -The Rt. Hon. John Diefenbaker, Canadian Bill of Rights, 1960
“The whole judicial system is at issue, it's worth more than one person.”--Serge Kujawa, Saskatchewan Crown Prosecutor, 1991
“The system is not more worth than one person's rights.”--Mario deSantis, 2002
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"If everybody would agree that their current reality is a reality, and that what we essentially share is our capacity for constructing a reality, then perhaps we could all agree on a meta-agreement for computing a reality that would mean survival and dignity for everyone on the planet, rather than each group being sold on a particular way of doing things." -- Francisco J. Varela |
The web site of the post-autistic economic network provides a starting point where any curious mind can take a trip into a wealth of economic and social stories. I am extremely disturbed by the ubiquitous Darwinian mind set of the 'survival of the fittest' and of the related efforts of our conventional economists to find the answers to our social predicament by using the regressive tools of statistical analysis. So this morning, I had a glance at the paper "Natural Selection and The Origin of Economic Growth" and I find out that the authors make reference to the growth of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the years between 500 and 1,820. This is happening at a time when economic development is conceptualized more as a cultural phenomenon associated to freedom rather than to the growth of the GDP. We must realize that Marx' Communism and Neoclassical Economics have the common understanding that the history of man is the history of economic materialism, and I don't buy this dogma at all as man is more than an asset measured by its contribution to the GDP. I must state that it takes the wild alienation of our conventional economists to express the GDP of any society at any time in terms of today's dollars.
Our international financial institutions are supposed to play a relevant role to narrow the gap between the poor and the rich, but then how can they ever achieve this goal when their conventional economists believe in the philosophy of the survival of the fittest, historical materialism, the GDP, and the regressive tools of statistical analysis? References Francisco J. Varela 1946 - 2001, http://www.enolagaia.com/Varela.html Post-Autistic Economics Network, http://www.btinternet.com/~pae_news/GEN.htm An 'Interview' with Dr Humberto Maturana, 'Interviewed' by David Mendes, February 1997 http://www.pnc.com.au/~lfell/visit.html Natural Selection and The Origin of Economic Growth, Oded Galor and Omer Moav, July 2, 2001, Brown University working paper no. 2000-1 http://econ.pstc.brown.edu/faculty/galor/working.html Governance Matters D. Kaufmann, A. Kraay, and P. Zoido-Lobaton (1999), World Bank Working Paper #2196 http://www.worldbank.org/research/growth/pdfiles/gov_matters.pdf |
I
had a glance at the paper "Governance Matters" and I find that the
authors use regressive linear relationships to explain that
governance is correlated to per capita income.