From: Hans-Cees Speel <hanss@zondisk.sepa.tudelft.nl>
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 20:54:55 +0000
Subject: Re: Can economics be studied by memetics. Was: Is Memetics
Answer #3, I left out the part where a number of people and corporations
> > got very, very, VERY rich from both projects -- that's economics, not
> > memetics.
>
> Isn't it? Could a unifying theory not include economics? From my point
> of view (information and encoding), economics is about the encoding of
> value. And than you get money, which nicely follows the deeper and
> deeper encoding evolution of other information (trade as behaviour,
> shells, coins, paper money, digital money). Something which starts to
> lead its own life, influencing terribly strong people's behaviour (name
> it and it can be done, if someone can earn money with it: you want a
> video with kid pornography? If you pay enough someone will get you one).
>
> One might as well say that 'Money' is the most important 'meme' on
> Earth.
>
> Well, this is meant as a question, not a statement.
the memetic side of economics. Hasw a nice ring for a paper:-) just
kidding.
but indeed economics is very 'constructed', abnd has an enormous
amount of reducing the world to code. Nice point.
hc
Theories come and go, the frog stays [F. Jacob]
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