Science and the Needed Solution to the Current Global Economic Crisis

摘要

This is the concluding portion of a longer piece by physical economist LaRouche. It appears in the July 15, 2005 issue of Executive Intelligence Review under the title "LaRouche's Fourth of July Address! It Happened in Berlin Last Week." We may now concentrate our attention on three topical points: that whereas most teaching of political-economy and related subjects is based on the kind of mechanistic outlook typified by the influence of Rene Descartes, the science of physical economy, as founded by Gottfried Leibniz, rejects the Cartesian and related, "Enlightenment" methods of mechanistic analysis, and chooses, instead, the modern European revival of the Classical Greek concept of dynamics (Greek: dynamis), a conception which is typical of the major work of Leibniz in physical science generally, and economics specifically. Rejection of mechanistic thinking, in favor of the mathematical physics of dynamic systems, is the basis for Leibniz's solution for the problem of defining economic value.