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From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
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Subject: Re: Greedy Apples
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Date: Thu, 18-Oct-84 18:05:12 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 18 18:05:12 1984
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> The reason that people know so little about capitalism (or socialism)
> is because no human understands any economic system.  The mathematical 
> tools that we possess so far are totaly inadequate to the task of 
> analysing anything so complex.

It may not be necessary to model an economic system in great detail in
order to understand its more general features, any more than it is
necessary to model the detailed neurology of the brain in order to have
a handle on psychology.