systems | complexity | second-order effects
Apart from the obvious impact on lost life, the shared global presence of COVID-19 captures everyone’s imagination when it comes to other consequences. COVID-19 is impacting just about everyone on earth in some way.
In this post I consider some of the impacts related to commerce. (If you’re new, here’s the first article I wrote about coronavirus). Continue reading “Confused Commerce (Coronavirus Edition)”
There are times when unintended consequences spring from bottom-up group behavior and times when these effects spring from enforced, top-down policy. This post deals with a few examples of top-down decisions that changed food supplies (and more) in unexpected ways.
Results include mass starvation, possibly the plague, and warehouses of moldy cheese. Continue reading “Food from Thought (Production Policies)”