Finanzkrise, Energiekrise, Ressourcenkrieg, Klimawandel, globale Armut... Schafft der globalisierte Kapitalismus sich selbst ab? Ist der Kapitalismus am Ende? Oder ist am Ende alles Kapitalismus? Vom 6. bis zum 8. März 2009 fand in der Technischen Universität Berlin der Attac-Kongress...

1. Economic Soundness -- 2. What Is Economic Crisis? -- 3. Crisis as a Societal Entropic Mark -- 4. Crisis Singularity vs. Crisis Periodicity -- 5. Overlapping Crisis: Crisis Between System and Network -- 6. Crisis Fractality -- 7. Measuring of Societal Crisis -- 8. Facing Crisis: Robustness,...

Written by an economist and an investment professional, this book addresses the twin crises that the world is facing in the form of a simultaneous financial and environmental credit crunch. Financially, consumers are less able to consume now, and pay later. Environmentally, we may have already...

In a seminal 1972 paper, Robert M. May asked: "Will a Large Complex System Be Stable?" and argued that stability (of a broad class of random linear systems) decreases with increasing complexity, sparking a revolution in our understanding of ecosystem dynamics. Twenty-five years later, May,...