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Simply An Unintended Consequence Of Innovation, Peter Cebon

Peter Cebon

This Op-Ed argues that the financial meltdown can be understood as an example of a systems accident, as first described by Charles Perrow. Innovations in the financial system increased interactive complexity, increased coupling, and increased the extent of mis-matches between the financial system in reality and the financial system that the regulators thought they were regulating.

Growing Indigenous Arts Leadership, Michelle Evans

Michelle Evans

The arts inspire and express the many cultures and societies of the world. They reflect the spectrum of the spirit, from the inspirational to the darkness of humanity. The arts and culture in Indigenous communities function on many levels – as tradition, as expression, as story - song, - dance, and as an economic activity. Through the arts, Indigenous communities link the past, present and future. The Indigenous arts and cultural sector is vibrant, complex and the site for much consideration of the leadership artists and arts managers play in Indigenous cultural and economic development.

This paper aims to explore …