Taking the realms of business, finance and economic history by storm, polycrisis captures complexity an increasingly uncertain world in a state flux transition. Proponents model, such as prominent historian Financial Times contributing editor Adam Tooze, propose marker our age, capturing overlapping interconnected crises beyond cause effect. In his article, authors offer some prompts for consid...

This paper describes the investigations carried out at ETH Zurich on the very-high resolution optical satellite sensor WorldView-1. The dataset includes a stereopair acquired in November 2007 over Morrison, Colorado, USA, consisting of a quasi-nadir scene with mean GSD close to 51cm and an off-nadir scene, with GSD up to 73cm. The radiometry of the images was evaluated through the estimation of...

Three studies tested the roles of implicit and/or explicit self-esteem in reactions to mortality salience. In Study 1, writing about death versus a control topic increased worldview defense among participants low in implicit self-esteem but not among those high in implicit self-esteem. In Study 2, a manipulation to boost implicit self-esteem reduced the effect of mortality salience on worldview...

This paper investigates the extent to which substantively distinct moral worldviews are associated with different rates and types of civic engagement. Following Lichterman (1995; 1996), we acknowledge that individualistic moral worldviews can and do motivate civic engagement. However, based on an analysis of survey data from a national probability sample of Americans, we find that, controlling ...

Seven experiments assessed the hypothesis derived from terror management theory that reminding people of their mortality would increase accessibility of constructs central to their worldview. Experiment 1 found that mortality primes, relative to control primes, increased accessibility of nationalistic constructs for men but not for women. Experiment 2 replicated this finding and also found that...

The concepts of complexity, endogeneity and circular causation (Myrdal’s (1957) term was circular causation) are shown to be interrelated ones in configuring economic modeling in the framework of systemic embedding and its empirical application. The ensuing framework of economic modeling with complexity provides a controllable and predictable overarching worldview. Anomie in the economic univer...