March 17, 2023
Economics
Ecologists take a nuanced, evidence-based approach to intervening in complex adaptive systems. This is how complexity thinking could reboot our approach to public policy.
Illustration by Claire Scully for Aeon
Ecology, by Midjourney
"Like ecologies, economies are complex adaptive systems. They exhibit feedback loops, delays, adaptation, path dependence, nonlinearity, emergent phenomena and — importantly — people.
"Economics is a social science. As the renowned physicist Murray Gell-Mann once quipped, 'Imagine how hard physics would be if electrons could think!'” - Kasey Klimes
Article: Designing an Economy Like an Ecologist
Systems Thinking
