Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 23:42:48 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Lisa: who am I? (5/9/95)



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Date: Tue, 09 May 1995 09:07:46 -0600
From: Lisa Rogers <EQDOMAIN.EQWQ.LROGERS-AT-EMAIL.STATE.UT.US>
To: glevy-AT-acnet.pratt.edu
Subject: Lisa: who am I?

I'm a biologist (BS) and presently an anthropology grad student.
I'm not entirely original, but I may be the first in my sub-field of
anthropology to try to bring evolutionary ecology (EE) to bear on my
interest in socialism and Marxian economics.

I came to economics partly to get out of taking a language for my PhD
program, and started with microecon because we use the same math,
optimality models, etc. in EE.  Then I read some Marx in a class
taught by Hans Ehrbar (also on this list) and "saw the light" in a
way.  I was always a bleeding heart liberal type, with a passion for
justice, but now I've come to appreciate how systematically poverty
is produced by the profit-seeking mechanisms, which are protected and
enforced by the government.  And it pisses me off.

In anthropology I had already studied a great deal about cooperation,
and various ways in which self-interested actors might find
cooperation of some kind rewarding to themselves.  IMO, this is
exactly the place that evolution, EE anthropology and socialism come
together.  How do we create a socialist society??  Obviously, I don't
expect that we can just talk people into it.

Although my academic work will continue to focus on human foragers
and mating strategies for the next few years at least, what we are
really about is understanding how the same basic principles underlie
the enormous diversity of all human behavior.  I think that in order
to modify something, we need to know how it really works.  So, this
could help us to be able to create socialism.

I'm NOT a genetic determinist.

I didn't mean to go on this long, but this stuff is on my mind
lately, and I'll probably post some of this to the list sometime
soon.

But now, who are you?  And what do you think of my postings?  I mean,
"original" is nice but neutral, you know?  I'm curious how it is
coming across to people outside my familiar frame of reference.

Lisa Rogers


>>> <glevy-AT-acnet.pratt.edu>  5/8/95, 04:45pm >>>
Who are you?  You write from an original perspective?





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