502. Fraud, Cybernetics, and the Architecture of Unaccountability with Dan Davies

Why do our most complex systems-from financial markets to corporate behemoths-consistently produce outcomes that nobody intended, and what forgotten science might hold the key to fixing them?
Dan Davies is an economist and author of the books, Lying for Money: How Legendary Frauds Reveal the Workings of Our World and most recently, The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions - and How The World Lost its Mind.
Dan and Greg discuss the complexities of fraud in financial systems and why no individual seems accountable for major financial crises, how the historical and intellectual foundations of cybernetics and systems thinking can be applied to improving organizational design, and the role of information theory in management.
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