How do representations of slums affect the governance of informality? In this post, I share with you some of the results from my latest publication “Governing informality through representation: Examples from slum policies in Brazil and South Africa” soon available in Cities!
The complexity view is that economic systems are adaptive systems, becoming systems, self-organising systems. Adaptive systems are not as susceptible to planning as machines may be. Complexity may be useful to discuss the challenges of scaling up the actions and innovations of economic agents and firms to economic growth, and the limits of trickle down logics in the context of persistent and growing inequalities in terms of non-linearities between lower level and higher level system components.