The connection between ecological and economic
systems is interesting, too. Originally you were asking
about a phase transition between ecology and conomy,
I guess there is already a name for the major evolutionary
transition between them, it is called Neolithic Revolution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic_revolution
The first economic systems emerged in ecological systems
when hunters and gatherers became farmers and cattle
breeders. In a sense, economic systems are as old as
civilization and agriculture. Farmers are located
at the intersection of ecological and econmic systems,
because they produce organic products by controlled
growth and domestication. They act like a company or
organization which produces industrial products which
are sold on markets, but the products themselves are
organic and completely embedded in the ecological
system.
In every ecology there is also "mating market",
if organisms use sex to reproduce themselves they
try to attract mates in the mating market or
they try to attract organisms which help them
reproduce themselves (flowering plants try to
attract insects).
-J.
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[...] I think this is a direction worth pursuing. Sorry if this post has
been somewhat ragged. There are a lot of pieces that should be disentangled.
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