This is an excelent course! I have learnt a lot

Excellent overview of systemic risk management.

Um dos melhores que já fiz no COURSERA!

Hope you give certificates next time

great content, top tier lecturer

Really good teacher and classes

Informative and facinating.

interesting

perspective

Excllent thoughts

Fantastic course

Muy interesante.

Great Course!!

Great course

Great Course

nice course

Recommended

Great Job!

!!!!!!!!!

Excellent

Exelent

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Much of the course material was directed at undergraduates in the US. That has advantages and disadvantages. Professor Centeno was engaging and competent, so hats off to him. He set out the definitions very well, but I do wish he had more global examples instead of using American High School society to illustrate the elements of a social system and networks. The COVID section is already out of date, so that will need revision.

Probably it is brave for an academic at Princeton U. to point out that globalisation has downsides, but for me the critical analyses were too still shallow. There were many downsides of globalisation that were either mentioned in passing but not considered in depth or not mentioned at all. For example the systemic effects of the 'human enterprise' as William Rees calls it, on the ecological systems is hardly covered. Also the depth, scope and persistence of human suffering that globalisation has brought and brings is not really on the 'menu'. The horrendous effects of global industry such as exponentially increased mining, the development and employment of 300 thousand chemicals that are mostly finding their way into the atmosphere, in landfills, i fresh water in the oceans with no regulation are just a few examples. I think it would be helpful to use the nine planetary boundaries developed by the Resilience Institute in Stockholm in this course, as the discipline of earth systems science provides their foundation. Also, the crossing of the BPs is a direct result of globalisation. Why are earth system science findings not included?

Also globalisation of industrial agriculture pollutes every ecosystem it touches and ruins the lives and livellhoods of small farmers, small fisherfolk, indigenous peoples and marginalised people who live in scarifice zones. These people and the ecosystems did not get much love or attention although the 'story' of globalisation cannt be told without including structures and patterns to achieve and maintain domination to have 'cheap labour, cheap energy, cheap food and cheap resources (Jason Moore).

The interviews were very insteresting some better than others. It would have been nice of the Prof had now and then asked a follow up question with a bit of bite, instead of only softball questions but I guess he was grateful to have the interviewees agree to talk to him.

The reading list seems OK but it is a shame that the discussion questions are always about personalisation and never about the reading. Including a few short texts or excerpts and asking some good questions or setting some exercises in relation to those texts would add a lot to the learning experience. Professor Centeno's article (with colleagues) on The emergence of global systemic risk from 2015 for example could have been usedin week one or week two. I added a reading list of my own for week 6 as there was none given. If you need me to send it again let me know. In that context why not offer us a chance to upload articles for others?

All in all the prof and team did a good job for a first venture into this difficult topic and I give them a lot of credit for the effort.