World, Species, Cosmo-Economics

Smith objectifies the concept of Nation as, at the same time, he surpasses it towards that of a Market of Nations.  Marx continues that extension, as his oeuvre spans the German Ideology and a World of united workers.  But, the Atom of each system is the self-interested person who enters into social relations either by association of or by dialectical resolution.  Thus, the concept of World in each case is derivative, with respect to which that of Nation becomes problematic, as has been previously discussed.  A century or so later, the Organicist model becomes useful to Economics for three main reasons.  First, by according equal value to Whole and Part it eliminates the limitations of reductionist Atomism, of either variety.  Second, it is flexible enough to accommodate Individual, Nation, and World, since a Whole of Parts, e. g. a Nation, can itself be also conceived, without contradiction, as a Part of a Whole, e. g. of a World.  Finally, the Organicist model is Biological, and, with the emergence of Evolutionism, the Species becomes a fundamental Biological unit, the habitat of which is the World.  Hence, that model is adequate, perhaps uniquely so, to the relation between the World and any of its parts.  In other words, third, the Organicist model is adequate to, and perhaps necessarily so, the completion of the extension of Economics from the Nation to the World, i. e. to a Cosmo-Economics.