{"product_id":"economic-problems-in-a-nonlinear-world","title":"Economic Problems in a Nonlinear World","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"Qr7Oae\" style=\"color: #1f1f1f; font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: #eeedfc;\" role=\"listitem\"\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"OxAavc NVbRL JPPuWb\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff; border-width: medium 1px 1px; border-style: none solid solid; border-color: currentcolor #dadada #dadada; border-image: initial; border-radius: 0px 0px 8px 8px; margin-bottom: 12px; padding: 24px; margin-top: 0px; break-inside: avoid; transition: background-color 0.2s cubic-bezier(0, 0, 0.2, 1);\" data-required=\"true\" data-item-id=\"1832956690\"\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"Ih4Dzb\" style=\"margin: 12px 0px;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"q4tvle JqSWld yqQS1\" style=\"width: 720.667px; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.38); min-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"textbox\" aria-label=\"Short Description (150-250 words)\" aria-disabled=\"true\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eEconomic Problems in a Nonlinear World\u003c\/em\u003e offers a powerful new way to understand the crises of modern capitalism. Drawing on complexity economics, nonlinear dynamics, network theory, and moral political economy, Lawrence R. Kunkel argues that the most urgent economic problems of our time cannot be understood through the old language of equilibrium, efficiency, and isolated market transactions.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"q4tvle JqSWld yqQS1\" style=\"width: 720.667px; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.38); min-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"textbox\" aria-label=\"Short Description (150-250 words)\" aria-disabled=\"true\"\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"q4tvle JqSWld yqQS1\" style=\"width: 720.667px; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.38); min-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"textbox\" aria-label=\"Short Description (150-250 words)\" aria-disabled=\"true\"\u003eInequality, inflation, debt, market concentration, financial instability, labor disruption, ecological stress, and democratic fragility are not separate problems. They are interconnected outcomes of an adaptive economic system in which feedback loops, thresholds, expectations, institutional trust, and power relations continually reshape one another.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"q4tvle JqSWld yqQS1\" style=\"width: 720.667px; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.38); min-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"textbox\" aria-label=\"Short Description (150-250 words)\" aria-disabled=\"true\"\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"q4tvle JqSWld yqQS1\" style=\"width: 720.667px; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.38); min-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"textbox\" aria-label=\"Short Description (150-250 words)\" aria-disabled=\"true\"\u003eModern economies do not move smoothly toward balance. They can settle into good or bad attractors. They can generate prosperity or stagnation, resilience or fragility, legitimacy or collapse. Small shocks can cascade through financial networks. Gradual pressures can produce sudden systemic change. Individual choices by firms, households, investors, workers, and governments can create large-scale patterns that no one intended, including bubbles, bank runs, inflation expectations, labor shortages, supply-chain bottlenecks, inequality, and political distrust.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"q4tvle JqSWld yqQS1\" style=\"width: 720.667px; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.38); min-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"textbox\" aria-label=\"Short Description (150-250 words)\" aria-disabled=\"true\"\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"q4tvle JqSWld yqQS1\" style=\"width: 720.667px; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.38); min-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"textbox\" aria-label=\"Short Description (150-250 words)\" aria-disabled=\"true\"\u003eThis book challenges the assumption that markets are self-correcting mechanisms detached from moral and institutional life. Economic systems are not merely price systems. They are moral-complex adaptive systems in which material outcomes, social trust, institutional legitimacy, ecological limits, and democratic stability are deeply entangled.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"q4tvle JqSWld yqQS1\" style=\"width: 720.667px; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.38); min-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"textbox\" aria-label=\"Short Description (150-250 words)\" aria-disabled=\"true\"\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"q4tvle JqSWld yqQS1\" style=\"width: 720.667px; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.38); min-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"textbox\" aria-label=\"Short Description (150-250 words)\" aria-disabled=\"true\"\u003eAt once analytical and urgent, \u003cem\u003eEconomic Problems in a Nonlinear World\u003c\/em\u003e invites readers to rethink economic governance for an age of instability. It argues that policy must move beyond narrow technical adjustment and toward structural redesign capable of building fairer, more resilient, and more humane economies. For readers interested in inequality, inflation, debt, markets, crisis, democratic stability, and the future of capitalism, this book offers a compelling framework for understanding why economic life has become so unstable and what kind of institutional imagination is required to repair it.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"Qr7Oae\" style=\"color: #1f1f1f; font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: #eeedfc;\" role=\"listitem\"\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"OxAavc NVbRL\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #dadada; border-radius: 8px; margin-bottom: 12px; padding: 24px; margin-top: 0px; break-inside: avoid; transition: background-color 0.2s cubic-bezier(0, 0, 0.2, 1);\" data-item-id=\"227500609\"\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"pYfr3c\" style=\"display: flex; -webkit-box-pack: justify; justify-content: space-between; margin-bottom: 16px;\"\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"prOLdf\" style=\"-webkit-box-align: start; align-items: flex-start; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: column; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0%; position: relative;\"\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"g53bl\" style=\"display: flex; width: 451.188px;\"\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"cTDvob D1wxyf RjsPE\" style=\"font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 24px; display: flex; width: 451.188px; word-break: break-word;\" role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"3\" aria-describedby=\"i.desc.227500609\"\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Lawrence R. 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