Université Jean Moulin Lyon III

When recovery becomes the new normal: Strategic reversibility for organizational robustness

Executive summary Organizations navigating permacrisis are not failing to recover: they are recovering into the next crisis. Existing frameworks were designed to restore a stable baseline that no longer exists: each crisis resolution reconfigures the conditions under which the ne...

Promoting Statistical Methods to the Members of the Econometric Society: Walter Andrew Shewhart and Statistical Quality Control

Abstract Walter Andrew Shewhart was an American physicist, regarded as a pioneer of statistical quality control (SQC)—an approach to production inspection based on statistical methods, especially sampling theory. He developed SQC in the 1920s while working at the Bell Telephone L...

Causal responsibility for (possibly) overdetermined climate harms

When it comes to climate change, some people may think that they bear no responsibility for climate change-related harms because their own behaviour does not make any difference to these harms – they will happen whatever they do or omit doing. In climate ethics, this issue is kno...