¶ Economics
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Economics:
“It is notable that the hard sciences, even mathematics, have the generalizations. But the social scientists, the behaviorists, have just the exceptions and not the generalizations. Only synergetics permits economics to be regarded as other than special case: the utterly inhibited viewpoint of the individual. Nature’s own simplest trick in programing is to starve us so that we will eat. That is the only kind of valving that the economists understand. There is no way the economists can learn how to cope. Selfishness is a drive so that we’ll be sure to regenerate. It has nothing to do with morals. These are highly polarized chemical compounds at work. Stones do not have hunger.”
(RBF amplified above in Economics, 29 Dec’73.)
