Chaos Theory and Leftist Economics

[Forstater, Mathew]

Barkley Rosser's book should be consulted, though it is more technical.
He has been a member of this list in the past.  The book is:

Rosser, J. B., Jr. (1991). From Catastrophe to Chaos: A General Theory
of Economic Discontinuities. Boston, MA: Kluwer. (also has a new, 2000,
edition, possibly in 2 vols).

Also, I believe that Cockshott and Cottrell deal with some of that stuff
in their numerous articles on socialist value theory. They have a book
as well. One article that should certainly fit the order is:

"Calculation, Complexity and Planning: The Socialist Calculation Debate
Once Again" (Review of Political Economy, July 1993)

see Cottrell's website for copies of the book and 'companion articles'
(including the one cited above):

http://www.wfu.edu/~cottrell/

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Seay [mailto:entheogens at yahoo.com]

For you economists out there...who among Left
economists has done any work on economics and chaos
theory?  My background is in mathematics and I was
just curious to know if the implications of Chaos have
been entertained by left-wing economists...I know that
chaos/complexity theory has had its impact on 
more market oriented economists.

Thomas