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Re: Bionomics?
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Subject: Re: Bionomics?
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From: umdudgeo@cc.umanitoba.ca (Roy C. Dudgeon)
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Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 04:08:30 -0600
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Article: 16619 of alt.sustainable.agriculture
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Organization: University of Manitoba
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In article <3295E71A.534D@bionomics.org>, mjacobs@bionomics.org wrote:
> Bionomics suggests a new economic paradigm. Where mainstream economics
> is based on concepts borrowed from classical Newtonian physics,
> bionomics is derived from the teachings of modern evolutionary biology.
> Where orthodox thinking describes the economy as a static, predictable
> engine, bionomics sees the economy as a self-organizing, "chaotic"
> information ecosystem. Where the traditional view sees organizations as
> production machines, bionomics sees organizations as intelligent social
> organisms. Where conventional business strategy focuses on physical
> capital, bionomics holds that organizational learning is the
> ultimate source of all profit and growth.
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> Max Jacobs
Sounds like a twisted version of Gregory Bateson's thinking to me, though
he would reject any association with economics, in order to say that
learning is the ultimate source of BIOLOGICAL growth and ecological
WISDOM.
--RCD.
------------------------------Regards--------------------------------
Roy C. Dudgeon <umdudgeo@cc.umanitoba.ca>
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