> This raises questions, by the way, about the premise characteristic of
> much Marxist writing that capital is everywhere and always omniscient
> and instrumentally rational in its pursuit of accumulation.
>
> This includes the premise that all future consequences of present
> decisions can be predicted using axiomatic calculative methods. In
> contemporary Benthamite economics, this has been elaborated at an
> economics "Nobel" award level by the "beautiful mind" of John Nash.
>
> Ted
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By the same token, look at how effectively Cheney-Bush etc. cynically use 'fundamental uncertainty' to undermine attempts to claim scientific status for models of climate change and calls for technological/organizational change as well as other policy prescriptions to adapt to the contradictory possible effects of 'weird weather.'
Ian