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quarta-feira, agosto 08, 2007

The economy is ultimately a genetic replication strategy

Uma perspectiva interessante:

“Economic wealth and biological wealth are thermodynamically the same sort of phenomena, and not just metaphorically. Both are systems of locally low entropy, patterns of order that evolved over time under the constraint of fitness functions. Both are forms of fit order. And the fitness function of the economy – our tastes and preferences – is fundamentally linked to the fitness function of the biological world – the replication of genes. The economy is ultimately a genetic replication strategy. It is yet another evolutionary Good Trick, along with leopard camouflage, bat radar, and fruit-fly eyes. The economy is a massively complex Good Trick built on the complex Good Tricks of big brains, nimble toolmaking hands, cooperative instincts, language, and culture.”

Ainda do livro de Eric Beinhocker "The origin of wealth"