Financial Whirlpools\n\nA Systems Story of the Great Global Recession\n\nSystems theory serves as a forensic tool for investigating the 2008 global financial crisis, offering a holistic, unique alternative to traditional linear economic thinking.\n\nKaren L. Higgins (Author)\n\n9780124059054, Elsevier Science\n\nPaperback / softback, published 4 June 2013\n\n400 pages\n22.9 x 15.1 x 2.5 cm, 0.65 kg\n\n\""This work applies \u2018systems thinking\u2019 (drawing on insights from economics, psychology, philosophy, ethics, and management) in order to analyze the dynamics of the global economic crisis that began in 2008. Unlike linear thinking, the systems framework takes into account such dynamics as feedback Loops, Lags between decisions and actions, Limits to systems such as the economy, and Levers for applying change in the most effective manner.\"" --Reference & Research Book News, December 2013 \n\""This book delivers revealing insights about how systems theory can inform the way we]