{"id":723,"date":"2014-10-27T20:46:46","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T00:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=723"},"modified":"2014-10-27T20:46:46","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T00:46:46","slug":"the-infinite-toddler-regress-the-krugman-function-part-3-transition-milwaukee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=723","title":{"rendered":"The Infinite Toddler Regress&#8211;The Krugman Function Part 3 &#8211; Transition Milwaukee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/transitionmilwaukee.org\/profiles\/blogs\/the-infinite-toddler-regress-the-krugman-function-part-3\">The Infinite Toddler Regress&#8211;The Krugman Function Part 3 &#8211; Transition Milwaukee<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: inherit; font-size: 1em; min-height: 1em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em 0px;\">In this installment I\u2019m going to talk about Paul Krugman\u2019s resistance to whole-system thinking, and I\u2019m going to do it by way of a comparison to a very different intellectual dispensation: namely the one demonstrated by my three year old twin sons.\u00a0 Lest this comparison seem too insulting to be taken seriously, in his defense I should mention that Krugman\u2019s poor showing in this intellectual curiosity contest nevertheless illustrates an important dilemma.\u00a0 This dilemma is faced daily by parents trying to get to work, but also by the intellectual-activist attempting to harness a curious and inquiring disposition for useful action.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: inherit; font-size: 1em; min-height: 1em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em 0px;\">Here, at any rate, is a partially fictionalized conversation between me and my three year-olds.\u00a0 I should note, however, that it is less fictionalized than one might be apt to assume.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: inherit; font-size: 1em; min-height: 1em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em 0px;\">Daddy [putting boots on]:\u00a0 bye-bye guys<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: inherit; font-size: 1em; min-height: 1em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em 0px;\">Evjen:\u00a0 Where you going daddy? Where you going?<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: inherit; font-size: 1em; min-height: 1em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em 0px;\">Isak:\u00a0 No go bye-bye Daddy, no go bye-bye.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: inherit; font-size: 1em; min-height: 1em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em 0px;\">Daddy:\u00a0 I\u2019m sorry men, I\u2019d much rather stay here, but I have to go to work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: inherit; font-size: 1em; min-height: 1em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em 0px;\">Evjen:\u00a0 Why Daddy?<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: inherit; font-size: 1em; min-height: 1em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Infinite Toddler Regress&#8211;The Krugman Function Part 3 &#8211; Transition Milwaukee. In this installment I\u2019m going to talk about Paul Krugman\u2019s resistance to whole-system thinking, and I\u2019m going to do it by way of a comparison to a very different intellectual dispensation: namely the one demonstrated by my three year old twin sons.\u00a0 Lest this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[153,154,244,778,879],"class_list":["post-723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-complex-systems","tag-complexity","tag-economics-2","tag-systems-thinking","tag-whole-systems-thinking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}