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Capitalism 4.0
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Digital Homo Economicus
All economic theories are built on presumptions
about human nature. What happens when our understanding of human nature
goes digital? What happens
to our ideas about the integrity of economic behavior when human nature
becomes reinterpreted through the lens of the new digital society?
Biology, ethics and economics are converging at
this intersection and are pointing toward a new digitized version of
human behavior and ethics. Our ability to analyze biological data, to
unravel the genome and study the brain through chemistry and physics
poses the possibility of digitizing the famous thesis that human
behavior can be interpreted in terms of an idealized
Homo Economicus, or “Economic
Man”.
book review:
WHEN I WAS A CHILD I READ BOOKS
by Marilynne Robinson. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2012).
Robinson’s new book
has been categorized as biography, yet that rubric fails to describe the
genre of her exquisite writing. In this collection of ten essays the
Pulitzer Prize winner explores the intuitions of her soul—an erudite and
cultured “writerly soul” from hard-scrabble Idaho, she quotes Cicero and
Calvin, and extols solitude as the writer’s
terroire.
With theologically astute musing she
admires the beauty of “The Human Spirit and the Good Society”, as one
essay is titled. She inspires us to cherish and protect faith as the
lifeblood of virtue in her topics: culture, democracy, capitalism,
education and the soul.
by bruce baker & eric wilson
Capitalism 4.0
Anatole Kaletsky sets out to describe for us the “the fourth systemic transformation of capitalism”.
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