Resilience Economics

Basic Information

Resilience Economics is a type of possible economic system which resembles traditional capitalism, but in which economic actors are prevented from becoming "too big to fail" - leading to a more flexible, redundant, and decentralized economy with a better ability to withstand economic crises at the cost of some efficiency.

Sources

Bibliography

1. One Model for a New World Economy by Jamais Cascio

2. Three Possible Economic Models (Part 1) by Jamais Cascio

3. Three Possible Economic Models (Part II) by Jamais Cascio

Game and Story Use

• As any company which gets too big within its market sector will get busted up and split into smaller companies, a lot of intrigue will revolve around proving or making it appear that competitors have become "too big" to weaken them - and about corporations concealing their true size.
• In a fantasy setting, such a system might evolve after a nation has had a number of bad experiences with large guilds or merchant houses who have abused their near-monopolistic status too often. If a new government is out to spit up large mercantile organizations to give smaller operators a chance, there will be a lot of intrigue and hostility between those former economic powerhouses and the new government.