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Re:How China's “debt traps” work by jxramos on Monday October 02, 2023 @01:29PM (#37741527)
There's something very powerful behind incentives level thinking, it really does push you into second and third order effects and meta level interactions to think "if this then what next". I've been wanting to step up my level of engaging and contemplating incentives in the generic.
Re:How China's “debt traps” work by dopeboy on Monday October 02, 2023 @01:32PM (#37741561)
Same here. If you find some literature about it that you're willing to share, would love to read and swap notes.
Re:How China's “debt traps” work by ipnon on Monday October 02, 2023 @02:47PM (#37742655)
Read an introduction to economics textbooks. Use one from a popular MOOC syllabus. Cowen and Tabarrok is a great example.

Once you can turn everything into a model and an equilibrium the biggest systems of the world become much clearer.