[FRIAM] Wilson and Snower on Economics

[Roger Critchlow]

Russ --

Thanks for posting this, and coming back with the link to the "Making Of
..." paper.  I don't know if I have the cognitive bandwidth to slog through
the full paper, but I wholeheartedly approve of their intent.

So DSW repeats the conclusion of his paper with E O Wilson, “Rethinking the
Theoretical Foundation of Sociology”

Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish
> groups. Everything else is commentary.


To answer Nick's question, I think they figure they get a mulligan for
specifying the mechanism of inheritance for groups, since Darwin got a
mulligan for his mechanism of inheritance.   There will be a PostModern
Synthesis someday.

As evidence for group selection existing and operating, they point to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elinor_Ostrom's surveys of human groups that
manage shared resources without authoritarian supervision and without a
tragedy of the commons.   DSW wrote a paper with her,
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167268112002697,
which generalizes the original resource management principles into
generalized rules for self-organizing groups.

-- rec --


On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 12:06 PM Russ Abbott <russ.abbott at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is the discussion by the authors
> <https://evonomics.com/the-making-of-rethinking-the-theoretical-foundation-of-economics/> of
> the article
> <https://drive.google.com/file/d/17mSkmB0nP1UNyrKE0LIN8-AfgD3DQGF4/view>.
>
> I'd read the discussion first.
>
> -- Russ
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 7:35 AM glen <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Sorry for my incompetence. What "linked page"? I see a few non-DoI links
>> inside the document:
>>
>>
>> https://thisviewoflife.com/greek-democracy-as-a-major-evolutionary-transition-a-conversation-with-josiah-ober/
>> https://humanenergy.io/projects/science-of-the-noosphere/
>>
>> https://www.strategy-business.com/feature/Common-Purpose-Realigning-Business-Economies-and-Society
>>
>> Is one of those what you mean? Or did you mean to include another link?
>>
>> Thanks for the heads up, regardless. Regardless of where you stand on the
>> thesis of the paper, the citations are fantastic!
>>
>>
>> On 4/2/22 11:59, Russ Abbott wrote:
>> > Strongly recommend reading the discussion on the linked page. It has a
>> good overview of the issues and positions in the article.
>> > _
>> > _
>> > __-- Russ Abbott
>> > Professor Emeritus, Computer Science
>> > California State University, Los Angeles
>> >
>> >
>> > On Sat, Apr 2, 2022 at 11:33 AM Russ Abbott <russ.abbott at gmail.com
>> <mailto:russ.abbott at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> >
>> >     Rethinking the theoretical foundation of economics I: The
>> multilevel paradigm
>> >
>> >         This article offers a new paradigm for economics: the
>> “multilevel paradigm,” which applies the Darwinian theory of evolution to
>> the analysis of economic processes. “Darwinian” refers to all
>> variation/selection/replication processes, not just genetic evolution,
>> making it highly relevant to economic theory and practice. The economy is
>> viewed as a system that is embedded within political, social and
>> environmental systems. The evolution of economic activities is understood
>> in terms of variation (innovation), selection (cooperative and competitive
>> relations that survive) and replication (transmission and proliferation of
>> ideas). The multilevel paradigm comes with its own definition and purpose
>> of economics, as the discipline that explores how resources, goods and
>> services can be mobilized in the pursuit of wellbeing in
>> thriving societies, now and in the future. We describe the prominent
>> characteristics of the multilevel paradigm: flexible, multiple levels of
>> functional
>> >         organization; the primacy of social relations, ignorance as
>> uncertainty; multi-faceted, context-dependent wellbeing; and multilevel
>> evolution as progress.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> https://drive.google.com/file/d/17mSkmB0nP1UNyrKE0LIN8-AfgD3DQGF4/view <
>> https://drive.google.com/file/d/17mSkmB0nP1UNyrKE0LIN8-AfgD3DQGF4/view>
>> >     _
>>
>>
>> --
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