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February 19, 2009adam smith, aggregation, ants, artificial intelligence, bees, Bernard de Mandeville, Christian List, cognitive modeling, cognitive systems, collaboration, collective intentionality, complexity, computational intelligence, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, emergence, evolutionary biology, financial markets turmoil, hayek, Mass Collaboration, neurobiology, particle swarm optimization, philosophy of social science, rationality, robotics, robots, spontanous orders, stigmergic, stigmergy, swarm intelligence, The Fable of The Bees, think markets

Fable of the Bees

Now it is becoming clear that group decisions are also extremely valuable for the success of social animals, such as ants, bees, birds and dolphins. And those animals may have a thing or two to teach people about collective decision-making. There’s an article in the Economist entitled “Decisions, decisions: What people can learn from how social…

November 21, 2008austrian economics, csi, distributed knowledge, DNA, Economics, economist, episteme, epistemology, forensic science, forensics, Roger Koppl, social epistemology, think markets

An Economist’s Insight

Roger Koppl was been banging on about knowledge monopolies for the last year or so. I’ve heard comments to the effect: “What business is it of an economist meddling in the world of forensics?” Roger makes the point crystal clear in a recent posting of his. I quote the punchline: The issue is not getting the…

November 14, 2008austrian economics, Austrian Economics Colloquium, Bill Butos, complexity, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, Economics, Gene Callahan, hayek, Mario Rizzo, Roger Koppl, think markets

I’d like to give a plug to a blog that’s just been started by some members of the Colloquium on Market Institutions and Economic Processes at the Department of Economics, New York University – ThinkMarkets. With names like Mario Rizzo, Bill Butos, Gene Callahan and Roger Koppl involved (this is no slight on the other contributors…