[PEN-L:30192] autism and autistic economics

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

Title: autism and autistic economics

Recently, I was trying to convince my son, who has Asperger's Syndrome (borderline autism), that nothing can ever be perfect. This goes against his perfectionism, a common symptom of AS, which encourages him to give up too easily -- since perfection is unattainable. Then I continued, with a list:

1. Nothing is ever perfect.
2. Change is normal.
3. The future is uncertain.

Then it struck me, that these represent major oppositions to the dominant form of autistic economics, i.e., neoclassical economics, which values perfect and static models of an imaginary world with no uncertainty.

Can anyone think of what to add to the list?

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Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine