Concepts

Written By Yuen Yuen Ang

A concept is a coined phrase to help you grasp the defining characteristics of an important issue, in contrast to other concepts. Think of concepts as the building blocks of thought. Everyday, we rely on countless concepts we’ve internalized to navigate the world.

  • Yuen Yuen Ang coin the concept of polytunity (crises as an opening for deep transformation) in contrast to polycrisis (crises as overwhelming doom).

  • Through AIM, Ang has created or applied many other concepts to political economy. One example: meta-institutions, i.e., higher-level institutional mechanisms that facilitate adaptive processes.

Yuen Yuen Ang https://www.yuenyuenang.org
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