Do the great stagnation failures of the research enterprise and the modern publicly traded corporation have the same roots? Are not both ant-colony-like adaptive entities with emergent agendas of "their" own? An agenda to grow and survive regardless of the interests of their individual members or of their economic and human ecosystems?
See also
- Emergent computation -- the thinking world (Nature) 1/2004
- Malice, incompetence, and happy accidents 5/2011
- Why do corporations (firms) exist? 10/2010
- Speculation: The corporate ecosystem and American stasis 11/2010
- Why did medical progress slow after 1984? 12/2010
- Unemployment and the great stagnation 1/2011
PS. Extra credit speculation. Could these longterm trends be an independent contributor to the lesser depression? Independent of the macroeconomic disequilibria of disruptive globalization and IT innovation?
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