Nov 30 2011: Amy, you are Hero!!! and people should know about you. In our school program we had a book "Story of a Real Man" about this person http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexey_Maresyev. That was hard to believe this person is real and a person can step over himself so much. All the best to you!!!
Nov 24 2011: Are you really sure the Berlin wall as well as a revolution in 1917 in Russia happen over night? That is right if you watch it from a side probably, I have never seen that from a side. People awaked in another country, even did not by a ticket to. It seemed to be so easy: one big boom and change regime. But do not forget what happen before and after that night. That is years and ages, lives and deaths of our friends (even in Berlin case). TV makes us deaf to all this "small" problems. Everything is possible but it is not a case for trial-and-error method.
Nov 23 2011: Very interested subject. But not the way it evolves. Sorry guys. [I've just open whole conversation, I admit I have not seen it before, it is so looong :) ]
From my technical point of view (where capitalism takes most of ideas from according to Schumpeter) the trial-and-error is the most expensive way of evaluation. I believe it is not a secret anymore.
Of course, it seems not really rational to turn to our past to gather ideas for future considering such global phenomenon as economical system. But I want to bring to your attention the system worked much before WWII in Germany. Where government not being absolutely social collected most of ideas from such organization as "Verein fu¨r Socialpolitik". Which was disordered by Hitler but nowadays works still. In fact, this organization, consisting from university professors etc., has been designing plans to develop stable economical and social system in the country. The government needed to execute the plans only. Just goole this organization to get better idea about it. Very interested on my view.
Nov 23 2011: Tomas, look at the math not as a big formula which organizes everything and anything but rather as a way to abstract. This view has more power than devoting of Great Constitution. I believe the abstraction makes the mathematics mathematics.
Nov 23 2011: That is awful. Same way as Mr. Zichermann does not give us any meaningful explanation of the facts he is bombarding us by, I do not want to explain why it is awful. But it is. Hope Zelda helps him to understand what it means. As a hint - I am not on the side of those out-dated teachers he mentioned but what he says is absolutely meaningless.
Mr. Zichermann , I highly recommend you - stop gaming for a while, read "The Glass Bead Game" book of Hermann Hesse as soon as possible.
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From my technical point of view (where capitalism takes most of ideas from according to Schumpeter) the trial-and-error is the most expensive way of evaluation. I believe it is not a secret anymore.
Of course, it seems not really rational to turn to our past to gather ideas for future considering such global phenomenon as economical system. But I want to bring to your attention the system worked much before WWII in Germany. Where government not being absolutely social collected most of ideas from such organization as "Verein fu¨r Socialpolitik". Which was disordered by Hitler but nowadays works still. In fact, this organization, consisting from university professors etc., has been designing plans to develop stable economical and social system in the country. The government needed to execute the plans only. Just goole this organization to get better idea about it. Very interested on my view.
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Mr. Zichermann , I highly recommend you - stop gaming for a while, read "The Glass Bead Game" book of Hermann Hesse as soon as possible.