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The big unresolved question of development from the 20th century and beyond; can engineering eat economics?
Can the distribution of resources, economic prioritization, be made into an engineering problem?
Can the distribution of resources, economic prioritization, be made into an engineering problem?
Economics currently mixes negotiation, a political concern, with with resource calculation, an engineering concern. Even in harder engineering problems, organization impinges; see Conway's law.
Can we do better here?
Can we do better here?
I aint even a socialist. The market works great. I'm just curious, because I see we have not yet applied an engineering consciousness to what exactly it works great FOR.
The economy is a machine. It is also a political order. These views need to be reconciled and fully applied.
The key question to be governed is the interaction of resource trade-offs with motivation, organizational communication, and political power.
