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It's easy to say that entrepreneurs will create jobs and big companies will create unemployment, but this is simplistic. The real question is who will innovate.

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The social system tends to be dominated by images. . . especially of the future, which act cybernetically , constantly guided by perceived divergences between the real and the ideal

Divergences, Ideals, Images, Real, Social, Tends
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Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

Believe, Believes, Economist, Fun, Population Problem, World

The use of isoquants to describe the production function did not develop to any great extent until the thirties.

Extent, Function, Productions, Use

At the opposite pole from the gift is tribute - that is, a grant made out of fear and under threat. A threat is a statement of the form "you do something that I want or I will do something that you do not want.

Form, Grant, Opposite, Opposites, Threat, Want

A second possible approach to general systems theory is through the arrangement of theoretical systems and constructs in a hierarchy of complexity, roughly corresponding to the complexity of the "individuals" of the various empirical fields. . . leading towards a "system of systems. ". . . I suggest below a possible arrangement of "levels" of theoretical discourse. . . . (vi). . . the "animal" level, characterized by increased mobility, teleological behavior and self-awareness.

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A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of democratic government.

Forms, Government, Unseen, World
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