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Re: Ecological Economics and Entropy
jmc@Steam.stanford.edu (John McCarthy) wrote:
>I was thinking about the German Social-Democrats opening to East
>Germany in the years preceding the collapse.
The Germans' opening up toward Russia under a Social Democratic
government was simply an attempt to get over the cold war -- and in no
way suggested approval of Stalinist government.
>If dlj regards Sears Roebuck as socialist, very likely he will get
>more flak from his fellow socialists than from me. I think I'll sit
>back and relax.
All I meant was that it's internally an administered economy. A
little centralised for my taste, but in principle no different from a
small-to-medium sized country. Just guessing I'd imagine that Sears
is rather more difficult to administer economically than say Sudan or
maybe even Singapore.
-dlj.
>
>--
>John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
>http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/
>During the last years of the Second Millenium, the Earthmen complained
>a lot.
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