[GJM] [rr] Transfinancial Economics, A New Paradigm

[robert searle]

Dear All,

         This was a rather "odd response to my TF
thinking!!!

Robert Searle


--- Perry Bezanis <perryb at condition.org> wrote:

> for (i think) applicable aspects of human physiology
> and anthropology of which you may not be aware, i
> strongly recommend-
> 	Human Nature and Continuing Human Existence
> 	<http://www.condition.org/audio.htm>
> 
> -ABSTRACT below -an even shorter, 4-minute-audio
> explanation at-
> 	<http://www.condition.org/audio.htm>
> 
> (infrequent AFEE contributor)
> Perry Bezanis
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> [ABSTRACT]
> Because of evolutionary origin as 'a warm-blooded,
> primitively cerebrating vertebrate', man cannot have
> 'divined' the eventual evolution of his uniquely
> human 'deliberative capability' and its
> consequences. What has developed consequently
> -'evolved', is that man has learned how to
> 'facilitate' his existence -with what we call
> 'technological advances', before discovering the
> consequences of such 'facilitation out of ignorance'
> -that, in particular, he would some day -and
> inevitably, come to regret how he had both lessened
> the duration and worsened the very nature of his
> existence on earth through war, waste and the
> corruption of 'pre-sapiens natural dynamics'
> -overpopulation, pollution, global warming and
> econiche die-offs -worsening human existence.
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Economics has evolved out of fundamentally natural
> mechanisms of human diasporation and eventual trade.
> For the greater part of history, these mechanisms
> were more or less satisfactory in the sense that it
> was not intellectually yet possible to foresee
> problematic consequences arising from underlying
> physiological dynamics. Economics and economic
> theory, in this respect, have evolved as less
> concerned with consequences than with 'economic
> growth' and 'abstract market properties'. Critically
> missing in this then is any reference to man's
> expressly physiological nature -and to that
> aforementioned 'deliberative capability' in
> particular -to the inevitability, in other words, of
> his increasingly deliberated and 'scientifically
> meliorated' influence on what is a closed-earth
> system in favor of 'life-form best longevity'.
> 
> There is a 'mantra' to this, and it is-
> least population of least resource/environment
> corruption.
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> 



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