[PEN-L:2444] Re: women & technol

[Jay Hanson <jhanson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:03 AM 1/19/96 -0800, Peter Dorman wrote:
>
>By the way, it seems that Blair and I have had very different experiences in
>environmental groups.  Most of the environmentalists I've worked with think
>economists are either lackeys or out to lunch.  This seems to be the case the
>closer one gets to grass roots (and working class) activists, such as the
>anti-toxics folks.

I am a systems analyst but I wouldn't call 'em lackeys -- out to lunch
comes pretty close.

It seems to me that "standard" economics left out the most important
system of all: our life-support system.   Isn't this a world-class
epistemological error that ranks right up there with "flat earth"?

I would like to hear a "standard" economist explain to me how they model
the impacts of complex-nonlinear, natural systems that now threaten to
shut down ALL economy, yet lie outside their field of research.

Jay