The Industry choice
Jeff Shannon
jeff at ccvcorp.com
Thu Jan 6 21:16:22 EST 2005
Bulba! wrote:
> .... And note that it
> was definitely not in his personal interest, whoever that
> was, a person or group of persons, as he/they risked getting
> fired for that.
This doesn't necessarily follow. The decision-maker in question may
have received a fat bonus for having found such a technically
excellent manufacturing process, and then moved into a different
position (or left the corporation altogether) before construction was
complete and the power-cost issue was noticed. That person may even
have *known* about the power-cost issue, and forged ahead anyhow due
to the likelihood of such a personal bonus, with the intention of no
longer being in a bag-holding position once the problem became general
knowledge.
Of course, this discussion highlights the biggest problem with
economics, or with any of the other "social sciences" -- there's
simply too many open variables to consider. One can't control for all
of them in experiments (what few experiments are practical in social
sciences, anyhow), and they make any anecdotal evidence hazy enough to
be suspect.
Jeff Shannon
Technician/Programmer
Credit International
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