Artan Dijic
“Artan Dijic may yet decide the future economic course of Europe’” With these words Chirac, then President of the Paris Lycee, announced to the world a view many economists had expressed privately for years.
Dijic’s early years, in stark contrast to his current position, were characterized by extreme poverty and brutality as an adopted child of Mostar. Born in the city his early years followed a conventional path towards accountancy but upheavals in that City combined with the breakdown of most forms of humane behaviour prompted a re-assessment of his fundamental beliefs and principles.
In a series of publications and articles he has begun to mark out the territory of a new economics. Beginning with the article “On Bees in the Autumn” he has worked to bring economy and ecology together, explaining that “Fundamentally we are a small group of microbes who by some complex series of coincidence cling to a rock in a vacuum within a void.” His work is combining Structural Theory, Anthropology and Economic strategy. Current work examines how the language of microbiology is replacing the language of computer technology in theories of organisational development and human behaviour. It’s a near Beckettian foundation for a theory of economics. But as he explained, “All Economic Theories are essentially works of literary narrative”.
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