World-System Technologies

  I have just started reading Jill LePore's   The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State  (video above) and it is really a great read (especially for someone who has lived their life in  Technology ). ChatGPT  gives the following summary: The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State is a history of how the modern effort to make government more efficient through machines and data could culminate in the replacement of democratic self-government by algorithmic systems controlled by private technological elites-and Lepore's warning is that this outcome is neither inevitable nor irreversible. And, in terms of my interests in  Technology : Just one comment and then I hope you will enjoy reading the book with me: LePore follows one thread of Techological-Political History and projects it out in to the future. No one knows the future but Liberal Democracies and Authoritarian Regimes each have one major problem: the people who can rise to power and who can command...

This page i s  UNDER CONSTRUCTION  but you can study the graphic, the  State Space model  outputs and the Wikipedia links below.    Notes You can run the  ITL20 Model  in  R-code  ( here ). For more of my posts see  Blog Roll: Italy ,  the  Boiler Plate  and the I ntroduction to State Space Models . Questions If Italy becomes a Steady-State Economy, how will Technological Change be affected? Will the  Learning-by-Doing  coefficient (F[1,1])) remain the same in a Steady-State Economy ? Wikipedia Links Economy of Italy   a  highly developed   social market economy .  It is the third-largest national economy in the  European Union , the  8th-largest economy in the world by nominal GDP , and the  12th-largest by PPP-adjusted GDP . Politics of Italy    conducted through a  parliamentary republic  with a  multi-party system .  Italy  has be...