21st Century Engineering by Anirudh Dhebar

November 2024

Four benefits of a 'meso' perspective

A May 23 Financial Times headline on supply chains, “Forget Micro and Macro, It’s Mesoeconomics that Matters,” has been on my mind since. Referring to economists, author Gillian Tett wrote: “A couple of decades ago, they did not focus much attention on supply chains. That was partly because the discipline was dominated by macroeconomics (top-down systemic studies) and microeconomics (bottom-up studies of individual incentives) – and industrial supply chains fell in the middle.”


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