Dear FIS colleagues,
I am afraid that at the time being not much can be added to the recent
messages by Karl and Bob (below). It properly becomes the matter of a
genuine fis research project, far beyond the limitations of an e-forum. My
impression is that around these very matters (ascendancy in economic and
ecologic networks, general equivalence between networks and
multidimensional partitions) may revolve the foundations of a new
"information economy" discipline.
Could we discuss in Paris how to organize dedicated teamwork at fis? We are
leaving quite many interesting elaborations behind us, unfortunately
without the finishing touches necessary for the disciplinary "markets".
Anyhow, as the Paris conference is getting very close, perhaps it would be
time for our chairs to produce some wrap up of the current session...
best wishes
Pedro
At 21:46 15/06/2005, you wrote:
> >On Tue, 31 May 2005, Pedro Marijuan wrote:
> >
> > > who knows whether conceptualizations on social networks,
multid.
> > > partitions, ascendancy, exergy & emergy, etc. may provide a
gauging
> > > system of "natural" standards against whom the always
flickering
> > > constructs of markets might be compared (at least as an
orientation!).
>
>Pedro, Bravo! I have long hoped to see someone caculate the ascendency of
>an economy! To me knowing the ascendency of an economic network tells one
>a lot more than GDP as to how the economy is functioning. Our current
>measures gauge only gross activity levels. In ascendency, activity levels
>are modulated by information- theoretic weights that convey how
>effectively activities in one sector affect those in another, i.e., how
>well the economy is performing as an organized whole. I have long tried
>to interest Hermann Daly in such application, but to no avail. Igor (M) is
>probably the only economist who has paid ascendency any heed.
>
>The neat thing is that the same data used to calculate the ascendency will
>also reveal its "overhead", or strength-in-reserve. It's a
"two-fer"! (Two
>for one. :)
>
>Cheers,
>Bob
>
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