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i notice there appears to be a free copy on the web. (i'm cheap and there's no bookstores near here basically (actually one, focusing on african american women's literature)).
ReplyDeletewikipedia has an entry on the bookeeping. it looks like an accounting identity. there was some discussion on how everything has to sum to zero; i guess thats like game theory---any non zero sum game can be converted into a zero sum game if one adds 'the environment'. i'd call these 'conservation laws' as in physics (emma noether). but, maybe those are anthropocentric projections.
looked up discordia concurs too. discordia weirds me out; prefer the family friendly drive bys ('bang bang' notorious BIG). but i guess that is an old term. people know that anyway---'survival of the fittest' / lotka volterra model (known in econ as r goodwin's theory of exploitation/marxism; discussed also by samuelson, though i dont think he for example put it in any textbook---its only for the adults, etc.)
i also call it diversity in/coherence.
my glance of 'confessions' is it comes down to 'original sin'----you gotta keep track of that, and pay up. so is bookeeping and math due to that? (some argue math arose to essentially do the enclosures of land. all the pythagiroan mysticism was just obfuscation). or, one can argue 'money is memory'.
to me double entry sounds like a matrix. and you can have negative entries (following feynman, the idea of negative probabilities).
saw that was in mrzine. supposedly in the 50's they were thinking you could have 300$ billion GDP. they fired this football player today after he took his bonus for 21$ million for the year and refused to play. maybe he could be in the work less party.