Université de Fribourg

How structurally stable are global socioeconomic systems?

Saavedra, Serguei ; Rohr, Rudolf P ; Gilarranz, Luis J ; Bascompte, Jordi

In: Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 2014, vol. 11, no. 100, p. 20140693

The stability analysis of socioeconomic systems has been centred on answering whether small perturbations when a system is in a given quantitative state will push the system permanently to a different quantitative state. However, typically the quantitative state of socioeconomic systems is subject to constant change. Therefore, a key stability question that has been under-investigated is how...