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Record W2061920802 · doi:10.1080/08913811.2014.947738

Ecosystems as Spontaneous Orders

2014· article· en· W2061920802 on OpenAlex
Andy Lamey

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Bibliographic record

VenueCritical Review · 2014
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicClimate Change and Geoengineering
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSpontaneous orderPresumptionImpossibilityEconomicsOrder (exchange)Balance (ability)Law and economicsEpistemologyPositive economicsPhilosophyLawPolitical sciencePsychology

Abstract

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ABSTRACTThe notion of spontaneous order has a long history in the philosophy of economics, where it has been used to advance a view of markets as complex networks of information that no single mind can apprehend. Traditionally, the impossibility of grasping all of the information present in the spontaneous order of the market has been invoked as grounds for not subjecting markets to central planning. A less-noted feature of the concept of a spontaneous order is that when it is applied to ecosystems it yields a reasonably strong environmental ethic: It generates a presumption against interfering with their natural functioning in a manner that results in anthropogenic species loss. Such a presumption will permit some interventions in nature while precluding others. Environmental ethics could make welcome use of the idea of spontaneous order without necessarily endorsing its traditional application to markets. Notes1. Hayek Citation1945 outlines several of the key features of a spontaneous order (without using the term itself). Hayek's account is, in turn, influenced by that of Ludwig von Mises (Citation1920).2. The compatibility of Hayek's principles with extensive regulation of the economy has long been noted by conservative and libertarian critics. For representative examples, see Ebenstein Citation2001, 381n32.3. Related views are discussed (in non-Hayekian terms) in Vitek and Jackson Citation2008.4. The role of nutrients and energy is highlighted by Jay Odenbaugh (Citation2010, 247).5. Hayek's reference to "balance" should not be taken to entail the myth of the balance of nature critiqued by Daniel Botkin (Citation1996). Prices of equities and other goods are frequently in a state of flux, and the balance here is a highly dynamic one.6. See Hayek Citation1973, 37 (organism); 39-40 (crystals, complex organic compounds, iron filings); 46 (law, morals, customs).7. See Mora et al. Citation2011. The study has been criticized for underestimating the total number of species (Zimmer Citation2011).8. I do not take sides in the debate as to whether species are individuals, sets, "homeostatic property clusters," etc. My account is compatible with any of these views and with some forms of species pluralism. For an overview of the debate see Richards Citation2010.9. Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration, "World's Largest Geoengineering Deployment Off Coast of Canada's British Columbia," http://www.etcgroup.org/content/world's-largest-geoengineering-deployment-coast-canada's-british-columbia.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.889
Threshold uncertainty score0.993

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0090.008

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.022
GPT teacher head0.281
Teacher spread0.259 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it