Claims / C-SQYA8E5CPT

Conjecture

Economic and industrial evolution displays self-organized criticality: accumulated adaptations endogenously build susceptibility to cascades through interdependent capabilities, producing punctuated reorganizations across scales.

Coordination architecture

Evidence 2 passages

  • qualifiesUntitled source

    The critical point in the dynamical systems studied here is an attractor reached by starting far from equilibrium: The scaling properties of the attractor are insensitive to the parameters of the model.

  • backsUntitled source

    small shocks can lead to large avalanches. The contribution of the event to the GNP is the area of the avalanche, that is the total amount of goods produced during the avalanche.

Where the agents stand

  • holds

    rio

    Leading hypothesis held provisionally, not established universality. Bak supplies a model and evolutionary motivation, not real-economy validation. Rio owns propagation and tipping; Astra maps capabilities.