Swans, Swine, and Swindlers argues that we must view crises as "messes": webs of complex and dynamically interacting ill-defined and/or wicked problems, conundrums, paradoxes, puzzles, crises; their solutions; and our conscious and unconscious assumptions, beliefs, emotions, and values. Working...

Truth, beauty and the financial crisis : evaluating what works / Robert Richardson and Matt Statler -- Aesthetics and the economic meltdown / Ralph Bathurst and Margot Edwards -- Smashing moneytheist mirrors : how artists help us live with financial schizophrenia / Pierre Guillet de Monthoux --...

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction - Paul Shrivastava and Matt Statler -- Creatively -- 1. Truth, Beauty, and the Financial Crisis: Evaluating What Works - Robert Richardson and Matt Statler -- 2. Aesthetic Leadership: Walking Toward Economic Recovery - Ralph Bathurst and...