Over a year ago, FEASTA’s David Korowicz stunned the world with his fascinating analysis titled “Trade-Off: Financial System Supply-Chain Cross-Contagion: a study in global systemic collapse,” in which he shone a much needed light on the “weakest link” choke points of modern hyper-complex society: a forensic investigation into a “Minsky Moment” thought experiment gone wrong, one crossing the systemic instability threshold, and culminating with society, economics and the modern world as we know it grinding to a halt and worse.
Since Korowicz’ analysis is precisely the terminal outcome that awaits the world caught in a state of relentless denial that even refuses to contemplate “Plan B“, what we said then is that “everyone who wishes to know what will happen unless everyone is aware of what may happen” should read said study in global systemic collapse. Before proceeding further, we urge all readers who are fascinated by the topic of crossing thresholds of social, systemic instability to read the original analysis if they have not done so already.
The original paper led to an eruption in opinions and responses both on the pages of Zero Hedge and elsewhere, to an issue that has chronically received virtually no media attention (for obvious confidence preserving reasons in a world in which centrally-planned ignorance confidence is bliss), we are delighted to present Korowicz’s follow up, “Catastrophic Shocks through Complex Socio-Economic Systems—A Pandemic Perspective” which “provides an overview of the effect of a major pandemic on the operation of complex socio-economic systems using some simple models. It discusses the links between initial pandemic absenteeism and supply-chain contagion, and the evolution and rate of shock propagation. It discusses systemic collapse and the difficulties of re-booting socio-economic systems.“…
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