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Hutter, Michael: Art Productivity in the Information Age, in: Ruth Towse and Abdul Khakee (eds.): Cultural Economics. Heidelberg: Springer, 1992, p.115-124
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Twas bryllig, and the slythy toves did gyre and gymble in the wabe: all mimsy were the borogoves; and the mome raths outgrabe.
American law professor commenting on Niklas Luhmann, “The Unity of the Legal System”
European and American scholars of law and society apparently have problems in communicating with each other. To invoke Lewis Carroll's authority on a piece of legal theory indicates how serious the problems are. After all, traced to its true origins, “Jabberwocky,” the famous “Stanza of Anglo-Saxon Poetry” (Carroll, 1855; 1871: 191), means “weeks of woe” in its original German version (Scott alias Chatterton, 1872). And inextricably involved in the interpretation of the poetry is a certain Hermann von Schwindel . . .
Self-organisation of the economy is an old topic. But what is its nature? Is it akin to a valve which regulates a machine through a feedback loop, to the dynamic stability of a thermodynamic system, to the evolution of spontaneous order or to the self-reproduction of biological systems? In this chapter, I will introduce a particularly radical form of self-organisation. We will assume that the economy continues through a process of ongoing self-reproduction. Very much like a biological cell, the economy not only structures but generates the elements of which it consists. More precisely: the economy is defined as a network of elementary operations that recursively reproduces elementary operations.
