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Hi John M.
I would be happy to talk to Buck. Would you give him my email and
ask him to write me? You don't have his email listed on this post or I would
consider writing directly to him.
As it happens, I have had several economists get in touch with me
from around the planet this year so far. Apparently, in doing searches on both
complexity and social systems science, they managed to find my father's work.
Trying to forecast the behavior of various sectors in global economic
systems was driving each one of them to look for more "scientific" modes of
analysis. Because complex organization was my father's "diagnosis" of the
general nature of systems in this universe, and because complex organization has
enormous similarity across type of system (meaning that organization and
behavior of complex systems is not dependent on what the parts are made out of),
my father's work is the lone beacon that is based on principles that hold up to
both logic and common sense. I have already put economists on my "list" of
professions which are in dire need of a "translation" of some of my father's
writings. They are in good company with medical personnel, computer systems
specialists, and political scientists, among others. One of the things I'm
working on are "reading guides" to my father's work, geared towards each of the
discipline areas on my list. I'm hoping that the combination of getting my
father's original works back in accessible form and offering companion writings
of my own that make the original works more absorbable will help.
Judith
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