I found a wonderful visualization of the collapse of the economy when I went to the Spirituality, Science, and Technology blog today.
The post talked about a paper on the Epidemiology of the Credit Crises which was found while reading Chemoton § Vitorino Ramos’ research notebook. I tracked it back to the original paper which you can download and read as a PDF.
The paper also refers to a page with a video of the collapse that you can download and review. The paper was written by Reginald Smith of the Bouchet-Franklin Institute in Rochester. This is very impressive and very interesting to look at. However, you also need to look at his cautions:
- This is not ‘market contagion’
- This shows correlations, it’s nor about causation
- While this uses the word ‘Epidemiology’, it’s not about a mechanism
As an educational piece, it’s an interesting insight into the progressive collapse we’re all now experiencing.