On Gintis: I think he’s on a fool’s errand. The missing factor in his quixotic attempt to build a closed model of human behavior is imagination and creativity. He doesn’t get Hayek at all: competition is about selection from the artefacts that people have created using their imagination.
You can’t model imagination!
On Gintis: I think he’s on a fool’s errand. The missing factor in his quixotic attempt to build a closed model of human behavior is imagination and creativity. He doesn’t get Hayek at all: competition is about selection from the artefacts that people have created using their imagination.
You can’t model imagination!