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‘There were no titles, no bosses, and no formal hierarchy.’
- Gary Hamel, What Matters Now (2012), page 193
‘First, we don’t operate like a hierarchy, where decisions have to make their way up to the top and then back down. We’re a lattice or a network, and associates can go directly to anyone in the organization to get what they need to be successful.’
‘..exchanges the status quo for an environment that he hopes will be more pleasant.’
- Robert P. Murphy, Lessons for the Young Economist, page 6 (Context)
‘The new trend which is introduced by the rise of plasma physics and space research is to some extent opposite. In these fields quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity are not very important.’
‘Open Source Ecology is a movement for creating the open source economy. The means is creating distributive enterprise based on open source design of products and services .. a startup entrepreneur .. that will take the project into a higher gear. That is how I started..’
- Marcin (Context, 2011)
‘A Child of the Wind of Change.’
It looked like a car.
It smelled like a car.
It had all the technology of an electric car. It could drive for at least 1,000 miles (1.609 kilometers.)
Except, it didn’t have any tires, nor steering wheel.
‘Mises, Alfven and Veldman are the fathers of Affective Human Action in the Electric Universe, where we make Contact via Action.’
‘Have you found it?’
I answered; ‘Yes, everything.’
‘What will you do now?’
‘Seeding, nurtering and cultivating; to build, to create.’
Paradise needs maintance.
Joram ((Dutch) Haptopraxeologie) - (Haptopraxeology)
‘..water has electrical, plasmalike qualities..’
‘In medicine, body water is 90 to 94 percent of the water content of the human body .. Skin also contains mostly water.’
- Wikipedia, Body water
‘The Electric Universe Lecture’
- Wal Thornhill (NPA Lecture)
‘Consequently the plan is a mental picture, conjured up by the actor, of the different future stages, elements and circumstances his action may involve. The plan is the actor’s personal evaluation of the practical information he possesses and gradually discovers within the context of each action. Moreover each action implies a continuous process of individual or personal planning through which the actor continually conceives, revises and modifies his plans, as he discovers and creates new subjective information on the goals he sets himself and the means he believes are available to assist him in reaching these goals.3‘
‘Furthermore all human action takes place in time, and we are not referring here to the deterministic or Newtonian sense of the word (i.e., merely physical or analogical), but to the subjective sense; that is, the actor’s subjective perception of time within the context of his action. According to this subjectivist conception, the actor experiences the passage of time as he acts; in other words, as he realizes new ends and means, designs plans of action and completes the different stages which compose each action.
The development of economics as a science which is always based on human beings, the creative actors and protagonists in all social processes and events (the subjectivist conception), is undoubtedly the most significant and characteristic contribution made by the Austrian School of economics, founded by Carl Menger. In fact Menger felt it vital to abandon the sterile objectivism of the classical (Anglo-Saxon) school whose members were obsessed with the supposed existence of external objective entities (social classes, aggregates, material factors of production, etc.). Menger held that economists should instead always adopt the subjectivist view of human beings who act, and that this perspective should invariably exert a decisive influence on the way all economic theories are formulated, in terms of their scientific content and their practical conclusions and results. On this topic see Huerta de Soto, “Génesis, esencia y evolución de la Escuela Austriaca de Economía,” in Estudios de economía política, chap. 1, pp. 17–55.
‘..The law of time preference is just another way of expressing the following essential principle: any actor, in the course of his action, tries to achieve the results of the action as soon as possible, and he is separated from his ends by a series of intermediate stages involving a certain time period. Hence time preference is not a psychological or physiological concept, but necessarily follows from the logical structure of action present in the mind of all human beings. In short, human action is directed toward certain ends and the actor chooses the means to accomplish them. The goal is the actor’s purpose in performing any action, and in any action, time is what separates the actor from the goal..
‘..Contrary to the assumptions of the “positivist” school, we do not consider empirical evidence alone sufficient to confirm or refute a scientific theory in the field of economics. We deliberately stated that we aim to study how historical events “illustrate” or “fit in with” the theoretical conclusions reached in our analysis, not to carry out an empirical test allowing us to falsify, confirm or demonstrate the validity of our analysis. Indeed though this may not be an appropriate place to reproduce the entire critical analysis of the logical inadequacies of “positivist methodology,”80 it is clear that experience in the social realm is always “historical,” i.e., it consists of extremely complex events in which innumerable “variables” are involved. It is not possible to observe these variables directly; we can only interpret them in light of a prior theory. Furthermore both events (with their infinite complexity) and their specific structure vary from one situation to another, and hence, though the typical, underlying forces of greatest significance may be considered the same, their specific historical nature varies substantially from one particular case to another.’