[PEN-L:30194] Re: autism and autistic economics

["Ian Murray" <seamus2001@xxxxxxxxx>]

autism and autistic economics
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From: Devine, James
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Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 10:40 AM
Subject: [PEN-L:30192] 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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Beings perish.

Institutions become obsolete.

Ian