1/ Leftist economics is like creationism. Rightist (in the sense of fascist-corporatist) is like Lamarckianism.
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2/ They lead to welfare and militarist flavors of cronyism respectively.
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3/ Critics of capitalism like to throw (unflattering) Darwinian metaphors around, but very little of that actually exists.
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4/ In a truly Darwinist economy, you wouldn't have corporations. They are NOT analogous to evolvable organisms if you think metaphor through
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5/ The only metaphor that works is product/service design IP as genotype, instances in use as phenotype.
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6/ For there to be "variation and natural selection" on these genes, the instances have to vary and survive differentially.
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7/ The only way this can really happen is tinkering/bricolage/hacking by end users. This means closest thing to economic Darwinism is....
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9/ Open source as true analog of Darwinism is like selfish gene hypothesis. Orgs as selection units otoh is like individual/group selection
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10/ This is update to my old (2007) stab at defining "business genetics" in context of Charles Fine book 'Clockspeed' http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2007/11/25/clockspeed-and-business-genetics-reconsidered/ …
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11/ This means trying to "innovate" management practices is like trying to evolve a third arm by surgically attaching one.
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12/ If you actually want to change an organization's DNA, *change what it builds/serves*. Org evolution follows from product innovation
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