Chaos Theory and Leftist Economics
James Heartfield
Jim at heartfield.demon.co.uk
Sat Nov 3 02:03:49 PST 2001
In message <20011102205851.44917.qmail at web12304.mail.yahoo.com>, Thomas
Seay <entheogens at yahoo.com> writes
>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
John Gillott and Manjit Kumar argue that Chaos Theory, applied to
economics, is apologetic for capitalist anarchy, and applied to nature
is a priori logic.
Science and the Retreat from Reason, Monthly Review Press
--
James Heartfield
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