Conferences

Jorrit and I are not historians, nor scientists, but like psychologists, we scrimp and scrape, borrow and steal from whatever sources we have at our disposal. This re-combination is how we contribute to the community. The most obvious thing we did was combine modern development with financial engineering. However, we do more subtle things… for example, once we managed to combine a model for debt with the company life-cycle. This year, for fun, we started work analysing resistance, what in organisational theory is known as ‘dynamic conservatism’. We took apart our clients, looked at them, we raked over our notes. Then we stopped and went back in time. Continue reading →