I've yet to find a case where the market economy model is any good at all.
But then again, I'm weird. :)
Cheers.
Fil
On 17 March 2011 11:30, Charlotte Magnusson <
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> Or the overall management or political system? As an engineer I find all
> these references to technology as if it is engineers who rule the world a
> bit strange. Given a market economy most commercial entities have economical
> guys/managers in the driving seat;-). Which appears to be (part of?) the
> problem. This is not the only case where it is really questionable if the
> market economy model is really the best one to apply to all systems -
> particularly when you have important factors to consider which have a cost
> that is hard to estimate. And sometimes when cost is too high (too hard to
> estimate) but paid by someone else (people living around, environment etc
> etc) the actual cost used by the decision makers seems to be put to
> zero...or am I just being cynical;-)?
>
> Best wishes!
> /Charlotte
>
> Charlotte Magnusson
> Associate Professor
> Certec, Division of Rehabilitation Engineering Research
> Department of Design Sciences
> Lund University Lund Sweden
> tel +46 46 222 4097
> fax +46 46 222 4431
>
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