From: Gerald A. Levy (Gerald_A_Levy@MSN.COM)
Date: Tue Sep 21 2004 - 09:07:07 EDT
Hi Paul C. Thanks for the clarifications. ====== One observes phenomena that can not be accounted for classically (Bells Inequality) but which can be accounted for by positing an underlying linear space. There is obviously a lively debate about the ontological status of this linear space, but what I was consciously doing was using this model applied to commodity exchange. ====== Doesn't the ontological status issue have to be addressed, though? E.g. the 'conservation law' is not only an assumption -- which is crucial for your paper -- but it is also a claim about the character and existence of value. ====== I am interested in the possibility of analysing the creation of money in terms of creation and annihilation operators so that the analysis extends to monetary circulation. I think one may be able to make analogies between such operators and the cancellation of debts in a system of credit money. ===== OK, you have aroused my curiosity. How would you go about extending your research to consider the above situation? What exactly would you be attempting to 'test'? In solidarity, Jerry
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