Re: Re: Economics as a physics problem
Reducing economics to simple calculations is what economists do for a living. The whole discipline, and much of our politics is based on that assumption.
This may be a large part of our problems. It's like trying to write a formula for the operation of a rain forest.
Adam Smith and Karl Marx were both analyzing the same reality, but I notice that they came to completely different conclusions. So it goes.
Frankly, if actually given a binary choice between the fall of Western civilization and building a bunch of nuclear reactors, I would lean toward the latter. :)