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In The Foothills Of A Pandemic - Yaneer Bar-Yam
The Joe Walker Podcast
The Complex Systems Science of the Arab Spring
In 2007, when so the world went through a crisis, financial crisis, we had these tools of complexity science. And what happened is that food prices increased dramatically. We sent a warning to the government about high food prices causing social unrest and political instability. That was a prediction of the Arab Spring four days before Mohammed Bussezi started things in Tunisia. So how do we understand that? Where do we anchor the behavior of the system that created that rise in food prices?
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