resilienceSci on Twitter- resilienceSci: RT @MarkAndrachuk: "How many qualitative interviews is enough?" via @ECGGroup and @jenlove23 http://t.co/JWcrY5y9V2 #ecrchat #phdchat May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: Fun end to SRC Futures panel with a good discussion on ingredients & potential for a "good" #Anthropocene. May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @DianeOrihel: Reason triumphs, sometimes: #ELA Lake 227 was fertilized with #phosphorus this week, so this 44-year experiment continues!… May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @DianeOrihel: On May 7, scientists called on #DFO and #EC to reverse its decision to end world's longest #eutrophication exp't http://t.… May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: ESPA funded postdoctoral position for SRC lead project on poverty alleviation & coastal ecosystem services http://t.co/g60LUkWAV2 May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: @MichaelSchoon1 I put the "good" in quotes - but gave some criteria that could be used to define good May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @sthlmresilience: @MichaelSchoon1: indeed, that is a critical question and is being discussed during the panel May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @MichaelSchoon1: @vgalaz @sthlmresilience @FredrikMoberg @resilienceSci @gustafr good for whom? May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @sthlmresilience: So Prof Peterson says criteria for a good Anthropocene is that it is: Fair, Prosperous, Sustainable, Resilient and fun May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @vgalaz: Abt to kick off final global future panel disc @sthlmresilience "Creating a Good Anthropocene?" ft @FredrikMoberg @resilienceSc… May 24, 2013
Tag Archives: financial crisis
Dead Ahead: Similar Early Warning Signals of Change in Climate, Ecosystems, Financial Markets, Human Health
What do abrupt changes in ocean circulation and Earth’s climate, shifts in wildlife populations and ecosystems, the global finance market and its system-wide crashes, and asthma attacks and epileptic seizures have in common? According to a paper published this week in … Continue reading
Posted in Regime Shifts, Vulnerability
Tagged anthropocene, climate change, eutrophication, financial crisis, Martin Scheffer, resilience
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Modelling leverage and the financial crisis
Science reports on agent based models of financial leverage -Leverage: The Root of All Financial Turmoil: Given that in the buildup to the recent global economic meltdown hedge funds had been leveraging their deals by ratios of 30-to-1 (that is, … Continue reading
Posted in General
Tagged agent-based model, econophysics, fat tails, financial crisis, markets, Stefan Thurner
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Managing disturbance by planned city shrinkage
Managing collapse? Creative urban shrinkage in Flint, Michigan from the New York Times An Effort to Save Flint, Mich., by Shrinking It “Decline in Flint is like gravity, a fact of life,” said Dan Kildee, the Genesee County treasurer and … Continue reading
The financial crisis as a failure of management
Henry Mintzberg, professor of management studies at McGill University, writing on America’s monumental failure of management in the Toronto Globe and Mail: What we have is a government that palliates: It provides geriatric medicine to its oldest, sickest enterprises in … Continue reading
Scenario: Resilience Economics
Futurist Jamais Cascio presents a scenario set twenty years in the future where the world post-capitalism is based on resilience economics. He writes from the point of view of someone living in that future on his blog Open the Future: … Continue reading
Posted in Big Back Loop, Scenarios
Tagged financial crisis, Jamais Cascio, open the future, resilience economics
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More on Iceland and the Financial Crisis
Michael Lewis writes vividly about Iceland, fishing, and its financial crisis in his Vanity Fair article Wall Street on the Tundra: Iceland’s de facto bankruptcy—its currency (the krona) is kaput, its debt is 850 percent of G.D.P., its people are … Continue reading
Posted in General
Tagged financial crisis, fishing, Iceland, Michael Lewis, Vanity Fair
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After Iceland’s crisis – social reorganization?
From the Guardian After the crash, Iceland’s women lead the rescue Icelandic women are … more likely to be thinking about how to put right the mess their men have made of the banking system than about cooking them comfort … Continue reading
Shared pre-analytical vision, and groupthink and economics
On the Economix Blog, economist Uwe Reinhardt writes An Economist’s Mea Culpa that argues that economists have become locked into a too narrow pre-analytical vison of how the world works: Fewer than a dozen prominent economists saw this economic train … Continue reading
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Tagged economics, financial crisis, models, Robert Shiller, Uwe Reinhardt
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Stephen Pyne compares California Fires and the Financial Crisis
Fire historian Stephen Pyne writes in the Tyee A Wildfire Expert Views the Money Meltdown: There are no absolute assurances that wildfire will not from time to time spill over into settlements, any more than markets won’t fizz and bubble; … Continue reading
Willful ignorance and the financial crisis – part 2
Gretchen Morgenson writes on the roots of the collapse of Merrill Lynch in How the Thundering Herd Faltered and Fell as part of a New York Times series on the financial crisis: “In 1997 and 1998, when we invented super … Continue reading
Posted in Ideas
Tagged Citibank, finance, financial crisis, Gretchen Morgenson, Merrill Lynch, willful ignorance
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