RE: 'Debunking Economics' - Ch. 10

["Harry Veeder" <veed0001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, I have his last book _The Undivided Universe_.
Bohm offers an ontological interpretation.
It moves in a direction that
Einstein would have liked.
Harry Veeder


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>From: "Steve Keen" <stevekeen10@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: veed0001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: 'Debunking Economics' - Ch. 10
>Date: Tue, May 23, 2000, 6:34 pm
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>Dear Harry and Gunnar,
>
>Thanks for your posts. I have no comment or quarrel with them. I wonder
>whether either of you have seen the Bohm interpretation of quantum mechanics
>which, as it happens, I mention briefly in my chapter on methodology.
>
>Cheers,
>Steve
>
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>>From: "Harry Veeder" <veed0001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>To: POST KEYNESIAN THOUGHT <pkt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>Subject: Re: 'Debunking Economics' - Ch. 10
>>Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 14:26:09 +0100
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>>From: "Gunnar Tomasson" <tomasson@xxxxxxxx>
>>To: "POST KEYNESIAN THOUGHT" <pkt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>Subject: 'Debunking Economics' - Ch. 10
>>Date: Thu, May 18, 2000, 6:59 pm
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>>Gunnar Tomasson quotes Einstein:
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>>For if the statistical quantum theory does not pretend to describe the
>>individual system (and its development in time) completely, it appears
>>unavoidable to look elsewhere for a complete description of the individual
>>system; in doing so it would be clear from the very beginning that the
>>elements of such a description are not contained within the conceptual
>>scheme of the statistical quantum theory. With this one would admit that,
>>in
>>principle, this scheme could not serve as a basis of theoretical physics.
>>Assuming the success of efforts to accomplish a complete physical
>>description, the statistical quantum theory would, within the framework of
>>future physics, take an approximately analogous position to the statistical
>>mechanics within the framework of classical mechanics. I am rather firmly
>>convinced that the development of theoretical physics will be of this type;
>>but the path will be lengthy and difficult." (Albert Einstein,
>>Philosopher-Scientist, pp. 671-672)
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