http://www.systemicsarchive.com/en/ en-US Copyright 2011 Fri, 01 Apr 2011 15:29:31 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification After pondering what is the best way to publish my study, I decided to quit continuing the old blog and start new websites. Here I explain why I start new five websites (Systemics Archive, Systemics Blog, Systemics Forum, Systemics System, Systemics Wiki) and what the role of each site is.

]]> http://www.systemicsarchive.com/en/new_websites.html http://www.systemicsarchive.com/en/new_websites.html 09_announcement Fri, 01 Apr 2011 15:29:31 +0000 A scapegoat is, in the original Hebrew sense, a goat symbolically burdened with the sins of the ancient Jewish people. By extension, it has come to mean any group or individual that innocently bears the blame of others. What kind of beings are candidates of scapegoats?

]]> http://www.systemicsarchive.com/en/scapegoat.html http://www.systemicsarchive.com/en/scapegoat.html 05_sociology Sun, 22 Apr 2001 01:40:43 +0000 The distinction of center/periphery is based on the stratified structure of ancient cities, where the Court or a temple is located in the center, residencies of bureaucrats or noblemen in the semi-periphery and merchants, craftsmen or farmers in the periphery. But sociologists usually use it non-geographically as the dichotomy that indicates the uneven distribution of capital as power in social systems.

]]> http://www.systemicsarchive.com/en/center_periphery.html http://www.systemicsarchive.com/en/center_periphery.html 05_sociology Sun, 15 Apr 2001 00:47:43 +0000 Many people are eager to satisfy their desire for difference; ladies with big-name brand products that show off their sense of fashion to the rivals, the intellectual elite that display their careers and title so as to distinguish them from the general public, bosses that flaunt their influence frequently to confirm the subordinates' loyalty (you can observe those bosses everywhere from a monkey mountain to Washington, D.C.) etc.

]]> http://www.systemicsarchive.com/en/difference.html http://www.systemicsarchive.com/en/difference.html 05_sociology Sun, 08 Apr 2001 00:37:31 +0000 In the late 1990s, a term "New Economy" was in fashion. According to Brian Arthur, the pioneer of economics of complex systems, while the Old Economy was based on the law of diminishing returns, the New Economy is based on the law of increasing returns, and it means the growth without inflation that boosts up the eternal rally of NASDAQ. What is wrong with this theory?

]]> http://www.systemicsarchive.com/en/new_economy.html http://www.systemicsarchive.com/en/new_economy.html 06_economics Sun, 01 Apr 2001 00:28:39 +0000 If it is competition that promotes the progress, the lock-in by the defacto standard, as it stops the competition of standards, seems undesirable for the progress of our civilization, not to mention that by an inferior standard.

]]> http://www.systemicsarchive.com/en/lockin.html http://www.systemicsarchive.com/en/lockin.html 06_economics Sun, 25 Mar 2001 23:54:00 +0000 The defacto standard is an in fact public standard that the market mechanism has selected, while such a standard is called the dejure standard that becomes widespread because of formal approval by a public standards organization.

]]> http://www.systemicsarchive.com/en/defacto_standard.html http://www.systemicsarchive.com/en/defacto_standard.html 06_economics Sun, 18 Mar 2001 23:48:36 +0000 You can imagine a culture as a correlate to self-sufficient economy where everyone could collect information and create works solely by himself without any communication with the others. Actually, however, we exchange commodities through money and views through language.

]]> http://www.systemicsarchive.com/en/language_money.html http://www.systemicsarchive.com/en/language_money.html 05_sociology Sun, 11 Mar 2001 23:44:35 +0000 Speculation is investment in the hope of capital gain rather than income gain. Many people consider speculators dangerous and, when the market loses its stability, some politicians make speculators the scapegoats for the crisis and try to regulate the market. Are they really responsible for it?

]]> http://www.systemicsarchive.com/en/speculator.html http://www.systemicsarchive.com/en/speculator.html 06_economics Sun, 04 Mar 2001 23:37:48 +0000 Why does money have value and circulate, though it does not have value in itself? I will answer this question in terms of the system theory.

]]> http://www.systemicsarchive.com/en/money.html http://www.systemicsarchive.com/en/money.html 06_economics Sun, 25 Feb 2001 23:33:48 +0000 A social system is not just a gathering of people. It does not consist in the interaction between people either. You can find a mere causal interaction between things.

]]> http://www.systemicsarchive.com/en/social_systems.html http://www.systemicsarchive.com/en/social_systems.html 05_sociology Sun, 18 Feb 2001 23:25:27 +0000 A textbook of politics usually mentions the following as a defect of democracy: Democracy operates under majority rule, where those in the numerical majority are powerful and they tend to ride roughshod over the concerns of the minority. It is a problem of democracy to be solved how to protect the weak minority from the tyranny of the majority. Is this classical theory true?

]]> http://www.systemicsarchive.com/en/democracy.html http://www.systemicsarchive.com/en/democracy.html 07_politics Sun, 11 Feb 2001 23:12:00 +0000 What is the criterion for reforming social systems? Let's examine utilitarian, Pareto and Kaldor improvements.

]]> http://www.systemicsarchive.com/en/optimum_allocation.html http://www.systemicsarchive.com/en/optimum_allocation.html 06_economics Sun, 28 Jan 2001 23:08:07 +0000 Economists usually consider consumption opposite to production. From the viewpoint of entropy, however, there is no difference between them. You can describe both of them as an increase in entropy of environment in compensation for reducing the entropy of a system.

]]> http://www.systemicsarchive.com/en/consumption.html http://www.systemicsarchive.com/en/consumption.html 06_economics Sun, 21 Jan 2001 22:08:10 +0000 Is moral value, as some theories of ethics insist, different from economic value? Should the moral value always override the economic value?

]]> http://www.systemicsarchive.com/en/moral_value.html http://www.systemicsarchive.com/en/moral_value.html 08_ethics Sun, 14 Jan 2001 19:36:56 +0000