Hidden Impacts May 26, 2008

Hidden Impacts of Stricter Sentencing

No politician ever claims to be be soft on crime. Quite the reverse: All politicians call for the legal system to be tough on crime. One result of this, at least in the United States, has been, over t...

Hidden Impacts May 25, 2008

Hidden Impacts: Keeping It Simple Isn’t Always Effective

One often hears the mantra, “keep it simple.” Yet, in our complex world, issues like globalization, global warming, and terrorism have so many variables and dynamic interrelationships that...

Economics • systems theory May 4, 2008

Are Food Riots Indicators of the Collapse of Civilization?

In a detailed article posted to the blog Climate Change and Sustainability, Lester Brown makes some startling claims about the state of the world. He contends, This troubling situation is unlike any t...