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“You’ll look funny when you’re fifty”

November 18, 2018cinema

H/T Gid. Check out the Jay Glennie-Sandy Lieberson interview here in support of this “coffee table” book.

Hayek and the Methodenstreit at the LSE

November 17, 2018friedrich hayek

Austrian Economics Friedrich Hayek History of Economic Thought Jeremy Shearmur Liberalism London School of Economics methodology

Cryptographic stigmergy

November 16, 2018stigmergy

As someone who more or less tracks the various (theoretical and practical) applications of stigmergy this one here is a first. I faintly grasp the issues in blockchain and cryptocurrency so I’m curious as to what stigmergy might bring to my understanding. Correspondingly, I’m curious as to what those in blockchain-crypto circles think of stigmergy? Well-worth checking out what’s on the mind of the author Prateek Goorha.

If there be such merit in the argument here, let it be dedicated to the memory of Ronald Coase

Austrian Economics blockchain Complex adaptive system computational intelligence cryptocurrency Prateek Goorha Ronald Coase stigmergic Stigmergy theory of the firm

From Mishima with love

November 15, 2018Yukio Mishima

Here’s another somewhat pretentious Johnny-come-lately review of Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters but fortunately there is this little nugget of a footnote to Mishima’s life.

Japan Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters Paul Schrader philosophical cinema philosophical literature Yukio Mishima

Cosmos + Taxis now listed on Complexity Explorer

November 14, 2018complexity

We are pleased to announce that C+T is now listed on Santa Fe Institute’s Complexity Explorer, the preeminent curated open access site for complexity studies of a technical and non-technical nature. Whether you want to get some basic understanding of complexity in its many guises or you are looking to refresh your extant knowledge, there is no finer place to go. And the beauty is that much on offer is free and is run by top-notch complexity theorists, the prime mover being the very excellent Melanie Mitchell.

complexity distributed cognition distributed knowledge emergent order Melanie Mitchell santa fe institute Spontaneous order Stigmergy

Percy on the Allure of Violence and Destruction

November 14, 2018walker percy

In Walker Percy, Philosopher

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brian a. smith destruction malaise violence Walker Percy

James Gardner March: I know who I am

November 12, 2018Herbert Simon

H/T Brendan Markey-Towler for bringing this obituary to my attention.

His seminal book, Organizations, written jointly with Herbert A. Simon in 1958 . . . In an October 3 memoriam published in Le Monde Thierry Weil asserts that many believe March should have shared the 1978 Nobel Prize for Economics with Herbert Simon for the theories of limited rationality and organizations they had developed together . . . The line from Don Quixote, ”I know who I am,” became his personal motto and oft-quoted advice.