I have no recollection or record of saying this,
and economic models are most certainly "non-linear".
>What Rothschild’s Bionomics is marketing against (in
>its admittedly simplistic manner) is the old
>Keynesian & Marxist views of the economy. While these
>views are struggling to stay alive they are certainly
>not dead. Paul Krugman is being deceptive or coy when
>he claims "no economist I know thinks of the economy
>as being anything like a machine".
I make the same claim as Prof. Krugman, so I don't see
him as coy or deceptive. And bionomics seems squarely
marketed as a substitute for mainstream economics, not
Keynes and Marx.
>Rothschild talks about "orthodox economics", he’s
>using a short-hand for the talking heads the public
>sees on TV and the seeming inapplicability of the
>type of mathematical stuff one sees in, e.g., the MIT
>journal mentioned above, to the immediate problems
>that public- and private-sector managers face.
The people who do the math are rarely the same as the
talking heads you see.
>Don’t mistake me, I think Krugman’s "equilibrium
>thinking" is important, especially as a
>counter-weight to the Singularity and the turbulence
>of Kelly’s "Network Economy"; but, there are other
>voices perhaps more in tune with Extropian thinking.
>I’ll mention Paul Romer’s New Growth theories.
Romer's work is solidly within the standard
"equilibrium thinking" framework. (In economics,
equilibrium doesn't mean statis.)
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