Tags
africa agriculture anthropocene architecture arctic art Australia Brian Walker Buzz Holling China climate change development disaster earthquake ecology economics Elinor Ostrom eutrophication finance financial crisis fire global internet job job ad map NASA papers PhD planetary boundaries Postdoc resilience Resilience 2008 Resilience 2011 Science science fiction social-ecological systems Steve Carpenter Stockholm Stockholm Resilience Centre Sweden USA video water World Bank-
Recent Posts
- A “Planetary Boundaries” Straw-Man
- Bruno Latour thinks about the Anthropocene
- Cityscapes :: An urban magazine from the global south :: New issue #3: The Smart City?
- Is 3D printing the “next big thing” for ecology?
- Connecting the Instability of Markets and Ecosystems – C.S. Holling and Hyman Minsky
- A Planet without Humans? Two Short Reflections on “Does the terrestrial biosphere have planetary tipping points?”
- Ecology & Society papers that best connect different author groups
- Ecology and Society’s most ‘typical’ paper
- WEF’s Risk Report and the misperception of environmental risks
- Two research positions at Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to work with SRC
resilienceSci on Twitter
Tag Archives: This American Life
Burning and Looting
What caused the financial crisis? Was the it the models, the expectations, correlated risks, non-transparency, dangerous financial innovation, or weak regulations? It was probably all of the above, but recently it has become clear that the banks caused it as … Continue reading
Posted in General
Tagged Akerlof, financial crisis, goldman sachs, Iceland, John Paulson, krugman, looting, Magnetar, pro publica, Romer, S&L, This American Life, Thorvaldur Gylfason
Leave a comment
Assorted financial crisis news and analysis
The US radio show This American Life has an informative show on how non-transparent couplings between credit default swaps allowed caused the contagion that was critical to the financial crisis – Another Frightening Show About the Economy. You can listen … Continue reading
Posted in General
Tagged 60 minutes, Alan Greenspan, financial crisis, Martin Wolf, Paul Krugman, This American Life
1 Comment