Adam Timlett
Risk and the problem of viable growth in biology and economics
The theme throughout this blog will be that human beings in economic systems are not the only students of risk, biological systems got there first (about 3.8 billion years ago), and so we have much to learn from our cousins on planet earth if we want to revise the way we study risk to cope with the challenges of the future, including of course, sustainable growth. The blog starts here, with growth itself and the concept of 'viability' which is so central to risk for biologica