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Minsky’s Financial Instability Hypothesis
Historian Stephen Mihm writes in the Boston Review on Hyman Minsky‘s work on the unstable dynamics of capitalism in Why capitalism fails: Minsky called his idea the “Financial Instability Hypothesis.” In the wake of a depression, he noted, financial institutions … Continue reading
The long history of human-environment interactions in China
In a recent paper, JA Dearing and colleagues (J. Paleolimnology 40: 3-31) use paleolimnological techniques to explore the long-term history of the region around Erhai Lake in Yunnan Province. Lake sediment cores (which can explain catchment vegetation, flooding, soil erosion, … Continue reading
Posted in Regime Shifts
Tagged adaptive cycle, China, Erhai Lake, historical analysis, JA Dearing, paleo-ecology, Yunnan Province
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Using Disasters for Systemic Change
The adaptive cycle concept propose that crisis is followed by a period of reorganization that looks for new forms of organization. Often these periods rely of plans developed prior to crisis, and are helped by links to areas unaffected by … Continue reading
Posted in General
Tagged adaptive cycle, disaster, matthew waxman, panarchy, transformation, worldchanging
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