Executive summary: The post connects concepts from institutional economics, biological development, and cognitive science to argue that socioeconomic systems have historical dependencies, distributed control, and goal-directed behaviors akin to complex organisms.
Key points:
Socioeconomies exhibit path dependence and distributed, hierarchical control like developmental biological systems.
Institutional incentives shape behaviors and capacities of organizations, like bioelectric signals coordinate cells.
Organizational capabilities coevolve with institutions in a spiral process.
Effective policies depend on balancing power distributions and enforcement capabilities in context.
Socioeconomic resilience may require components with less individual agency, by analogy to collective insect intelligence.
Further research could illuminate how organizational intelligence arises from agent interactions, like in embryonic communication.
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Executive summary: The post connects concepts from institutional economics, biological development, and cognitive science to argue that socioeconomic systems have historical dependencies, distributed control, and goal-directed behaviors akin to complex organisms.
Key points:
Socioeconomies exhibit path dependence and distributed, hierarchical control like developmental biological systems.
Institutional incentives shape behaviors and capacities of organizations, like bioelectric signals coordinate cells.
Organizational capabilities coevolve with institutions in a spiral process.
Effective policies depend on balancing power distributions and enforcement capabilities in context.
Socioeconomic resilience may require components with less individual agency, by analogy to collective insect intelligence.
Further research could illuminate how organizational intelligence arises from agent interactions, like in embryonic communication.
This comment was auto-generated by the EA Forum Team. Feel free to point out issues with this summary by replying to the comment, and contact us if you have feedback.