FW: [CrashList] Barkley Rosser Jr: Aspects of dialectics and non-linear dynamics

Mark Jones jones118 at lineone.net
Sat Jul 29 09:15:43 PDT 2000


Barkley Rosser's essay, published last May in the Cambridge Journal of Economics, has this abstract:

"Three principles of dialectical analysis are examined in terms of non-linear dynamics models. The three principles are the transformation of quantity into quality, the interpenetration of opposites, and the negation of the negation. The first two of these especially are interpreted within the frameworks of catastrophe, chaos and emergent dynamics complexity theoretic models, with the concept of bifurcation playing a central role. Problems with this viewpoint are also discussed."

It's too long to post but is archived, by permission, at the Crashist website at: http://website.lineone.net/~resource_base

Mark Jones



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