About Open Naturalized Socioeconomics

 

 Since the conception of evolutionary theory, the context was most often taken as competitive. This is something that Darwin himself changed his opinion about in his later years. Evolution as a normative and thus cooperative process is now the central dogma. In earlier times however, maybe as early as remote antiquity, competition was accepted socially as human nature. This had a profound effect on economies and global economics. The issues from this misunderstanding still inhibits human understanding of themselves.

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 Adam Smith was critical of global economic practices that revolved around pathological competition between nation states. In his books "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations", he described numerous ways that healthy competition was traded for financial or political advantage. Many of the same strategies that he criticized are still common practice today. This seems to be because his model lacked many of the scientific disciplines that are established today. Darwin wasn't even born until decades after Adam Smith's death. Smith was of course a great thinker; however, he lacked the understanding that we enjoy in modern times. His criticisms however are astute and useful just the same. 

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 In the mid 1980s David Bohm began on a philosophical journey to analyze socioeconomic practices, determine issues and try to imagine possible solutions. He and the eastern philosopher J, Krishnamurti had numerous discussions; in an effort to get to the root of the problem. In his book "Wholeness and the Implicate Order" Bohm suggested that the approach revolved around an expectation of fragmented systems that rendered us incapable of understanding the fundamentals of normative influence. This all followed his work with Albert Einstein and the ongoing quest for unification. 

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 Modern study has led the understanding to a model that suggests that there are no closed systems. All known systems interact with at least a bath. Cartesian notions of causality are replaced with influence; weather it be entropic, normative or novel. 

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 This project aims to remodel socioeconomic theory with modern understanding. It was conceived in January of 2015; but it has precedent in the works of Smith and Bohm. 

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