From: Ian Wright (ian_paul_wright@HOTMAIL.COM)
Date: Thu Jun 12 2003 - 18:48:17 EDT
Hello Paul, >I am not sure what the roles you are describing would be. >The social situation is not directly analogous to particles >in statistical mechanics since in classical theory the particles >are assumed to be conserved. However, it is clearly not >the case either with humans or abstract juridical persons. I was thinking that the roles were conserved. By role I am thinking simply of an available "slot" that an individual may take in an economy that has a fixed number of slots at any one time. There's a throughput of individuals as they enter and leave the economic system, but the slots are conserved. When an individual leaves the economy a slot becomes available, which is taken by a new participant. I think the edge cases of initial money endowments on entry, and final money endowments on exit, can be squared with this, but I'd need to think about it. -Ian. _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail
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