Category: Policy

• Complex Systems Frameworks Collection

  Complex Systems Frameworks Collection The Complex Systems Frameworks Collection is a gerat resource for navigating an increasingly complex world. Over time, people have developed many excellent frameworks, analogies and models for understanding complexity. This collection brings them together in an illustrated collection to help you: Because complex isn’t the same as complicated. Each framework has its…

  walterstiers

  2025-12-19

  #Cynefin, #stakeholder economy, Biology of Information, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Design Thinking, Life Ideas, Policy, Practical Wisdom, Social-Technical, Uncategorized

  #DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens

• Social networks affect redistribution decisions and polarization

  “Social networks affect redistribution decisions and polarization” “Whom you observe in your daily life alters your willingness to tax the rich” Recent research suggests that the visibility of extreme wealth within a person’s social circle drives their support for economic redistribution but simultaneously fosters political polarization and personal dissatisfaction. A study published in PNAS Nexus combines computational…

  walterstiers

  2025-12-06

  #stakeholder economy, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Policy

  #DecisionIntelligence, #EconomicBehavior, #StakeholderEconomy, #TheInformationLens, economics, economy, history, news, politics

• Nature on the balance sheet …

  “Putting nature on the balance sheet: how to account for the ecological costs of our actions” Economists should consider forests and wetlands as well as factories and farms. A book review of “On Natural Capital: The Value of the World Around Us“, Partha Dasgupta (2025) On Natural Capital recaps the roaring economic advances of the past 75…

  walterstiers

  2025-11-24

  #stakeholder economy, #Wicked, Complexity, Life Ideas, Policy, Practical Wisdom

  #DecisionIntelligence, #StakeholderEconomy, #TheInformationLens, environment, nature, Sustainability

• Becoming Nature Positive

  “Becoming Nature Positive: Transitioning to a Safe and Just Future “, an open access book from the Nature Positive Initiative Becoming Nature Positive: Transitioning to a Safe and Just Futureis a collaborative effort from a wide range of authors, covering many sectors of society. ‘Nature Positive’ is a recently agreed upon global goal to “halt and…

  walterstiers

  2025-11-24

  #stakeholder economy, Life Ideas, Policy

  #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens, biodiversity, environment, nature, Sustainability

• End GDP mania

  “End GDP mania: how the world should really measure prosperity” Last week’s United Nations General Assembly, held in New York City, generated no shortage of headlines. But one notable policy initiative from the world body was not discussed by world leaders when it should have been. UN secretary-general António Guterres has put together a high-level…

  walterstiers

  2025-10-04

  #stakeholder economy, Complexity, Life Ideas, Policy

  #DecisionIntelligence, #EconomicBehavior, #TheInformationLens, climate-change, economics, economy, environment, Sustainability

• Beyond thinking fast and slow: clinical reasoning

  “Beyond thinking fast and slow: a Bayesian intuitionist model of clinical reasoning” Clinical reasoning is a quintessential aspect of medical training and practice, and is a topic that has been studied and written about extensively over the past few decades. However, the predominant conceptualisation of clinical reasoning has insofar been extrapolated from cognitive psychological theories…

  walterstiers

  2025-09-09

  #sense-making, #Wicked, Biology of Information, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Policy, Practical Wisdom, Science, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, health, mental-health, technology

• Horizon Scanning

  EU policy lab released a set of “signal cards“. More information available at “In the mood for the future with Horizon Scanning Cards“ The Signal Cards come out of the ESPAS Horizon Scanning activity, in which we present and analyse emerging trends, technologies or generally signs of new which we identified through the horizon scanning…

  walterstiers

  2025-08-16

  #sense-making, #stakeholder economy, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Policy

  #DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, politics, Sustainability, technology

• Sensemaking – Eurosense

  Eurosense, A European Citizen Sensor Network, is a Europe-wide citizen science network that wants to make the voices of European citizens heard by activists, policy makers and governments.By understanding the experiences of citizens in public life, and the pulse of Europe, we will overcome polarisation and collectively tackle the challenges of our times such as…

  walterstiers

  2025-04-24

  #Cynefin, #sense-making, #stakeholder economy, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Policy, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens

• Civil society comes of age in economics

  “Civil society comes of age in economics: Tracking a century of research“ Using topic modeling on the corpus of papers published in seven leading economics journals since 1900, we study the evolving emphasis in research on themes relating to the state, markets, and civil society, the latter referring to families, firms as organizations, other private…

  walterstiers

  2025-02-15

  #stakeholder economy, Policy

  #DecisionIntelligence, #EconomicBehavior, #TheInformationLens

• As For Protocols

  Explicitly—or not—protocols determine much of what we do. Far exceeding traditional notions of “good manners,” protocols are systems of language that regulate how we relate to each other, to our cultural, social, and political environments, and to the technologies that create them. The first publication to critically examine protocols across a wide range of disciplines, As…

  walterstiers

  2025-02-07

  Life Ideas, Policy, Practical Wisdom

  #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens