Space bias of capital
Yanis Varoufakis on the Eurozone Debt Crisis
On Models
Models World3 Model The World3 model is a system dynamics model for computer simulation of interactions between population, industrial growth, food production and limits in the ecosystems of the Earth. It was originally produced and used by a Club of Rome study that produced the model and the book The…
Space bias / time bias
Harold Innis’ bias of communication thesis, it seems to me, actually goes much farther than the usual rendering that explains his idea of bias by observing that stone inscription is time biased because stones last a long time, whereas paper manuscripts constitute a space biased medium of communication since papyrus…
Herculean Power detail 1
William Petty (1623–1687), author of Political Arithmetick, father of demography and political economy and to that extent, the modern-Herculean social sciences, calculates a raison d’etat, for the very first time, thus: “the fertility of women in New England would compensate for losses in Ireland. Based on the assumption that ‘‘you…
Revolution 100