Talk:Ann Davis
Smart people
Ann Davis state in her video "And so you have smart people, you have resilient planet. That's where growth comes from, not from money itself, it comes from people and land."
So I see the international institutions like the IMF and the UN and the environmental program and WTO, they're all kind of specialized and fragmented.
Seems to me we take global institutions and we put them together with ecological knowledge.
And then the investments and the credit are based on restoring people and the planet.
During the last two decades she has met with those who are labeled as leading scholars of our times but whom seem to be blending what they call the humanities and economics to determine what they believe to be the ultimate solution for what they perceive as the problems with or within the world today.
The ultimate solution they espouse echoes the potter that permeated the society that produced the final solution in the time when millions would die at the hands of those who sought social control through force and the power of government that exercise authority through a political and economic systems of socialism.
People like:
John Searle
John Searle who believes any "value judgment" is epistemically subjective which another way of saing there is no standard or universal vale.
Alan Ryan
Alan Ryan, who is an advocate of Modern liberals which generally believe that national prosperity requires government management of the macroeconomy in order to keep unemployment low, inflation in check and growth high. They also value institutions that defend against economic inequality.
Mary Poovey
Mary Poovey whose recent books include The Evolution of the Property Relation: Understanding Paradigms, Debates, and Prospects, Palgrave MacMillan, 2015, and Money as a Social Institution, Routledge, 2017.
She seems to also feel inclined to venture into the world of economics attempting to make sense of its description or explanation.
These scholars and achedemics may be willing proclaim they are out of their element or do not understand or even see a solution in all they share but may seek to blaim that lack of comprehension on the fact that economics have become defined by the language of mathamatics.
Mary Poovey makes the statements:
[52:47] "offering three observations about models in general and about how our reliance on them constitute what counts as knowledge now
first as all of my examples make clear models abstract from immediate experience and observed particulars in order to generate simplified manipulable simulations of actual conditions in doing so they alter not only one's relation to the real but also what could count as knowledge about the real
because models are both performative[1] and recursive[2] Moreover extensive reliance on them increases the likelihood that models will beget a reality that takes its form from the models or even that models will beget more models.
Second as models incorporate and are organized by mathematical principles the mathematical form which they call the syntax increasingly dictates the way that the economic or financial content which they call the semantics can be understood this increases the potential for simplification and clarity in the model but it also means that the rules of mathematics dominate one's experience of messy economic and financial transactions
It also means that formulations that are particularly convenient for mathematical procedures sometimes take precedence over other formulations that might be less mathematically useful but that are more responsive to human concerns. This is the case for example with the gdp the gross domestic product which is the headline aggregate featured. In the macroeconomic estimates called national income accounts the prominence of the gdp makes it easy to see whether the overall income of a nation is increasing but difficult to see how wealth is being distributed among parts of the population The gdp also makes it very hard to see how efforts to increase the gross dometic product might adversely affect the environment which is not represented at all in the national aggregates. So every time an aggregate is made those features of the economy that it does not include become literally invisible so this is the case for example of the contributions that domestic
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- ↑ performative: Relating to or being an utterance that performs an act or creates a state of affairs by the fact of its being uttered under appropriate or conventional circumstances, as a justice of the peace uttering I now pronounce you husband and wife at a wedding ceremony, thus creating a legal union, or as one uttering I promise, thus performing the act of promising.
- ↑ recursive: Of or relating to a repeating process whose output at each stage is applied as input in the succeeding stage.