The Economic Environment: A Prospective Case

Abstract

Throughout this book we have identified many challenges that we face locally and globally with respect to the predictability of financial systems and the associated economic consequences. We have pointed to a number of ways in which we might be able to become more effective and better informed. We have described the components and methods that have been collectively engineered to produce a solution. At a minimum these are the first steps toward a solution that have the potential to become the remediation to a too durable anarchy that characterizes current practices and leads to unpredictable consequences. This chapter begins to further define the components, methods, and characteristics of the solution needed to address larger dynamic complexity problems, such as global economies.

Life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself, it is infinitely beyond your or my obtuse theories about it.

—Boris Pasternak, Dr. Zhivago