The Crisis of Undercoordination

DOI

10.2991/jrarc.2014.4.2.1How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Interdependence, coordination/regulation, undercoordination

Abstract

Technological progress—especially in the realms of information processing, communication, transportation, commerce and distribution of energy—is leading to an accelerated growth in interdependence on all levels of modern society. A well-known result in systems analysis is that highly interdependent large-scale systems carry a high risk of catastrophic failures. To ensure stability, an increase in interdependence must be accompanied by an increase in coordination/regulation. In democratic societies there is an imbalance between interdependence and coordination/regulation. A manifestation of this imbalance is a chronic crisis of undercoordination. In large measure, the debt crisis of 2008 may be viewed as an eruption of the crisis of undercoordination.

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© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - JOUR
AU  - Lotfi A. Zadeh
PY  - 2014
DA  - 2014/06/19
TI  - The Crisis of Undercoordination
JO  - Journal of Risk Analysis and Crisis Response
SP  - 59
EP  - 60
VL  - 4
IS  - 2
SN  - 2210-8505
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/jrarc.2014.4.2.1
DO  - 10.2991/jrarc.2014.4.2.1
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