 What state bureaucracy development saved Europe after WWII?
People working day and night; coming up with the most ingenious, improvised solutions to everything from food and shelter to communications and security. Disaster, natural or otherwise, is a breakdown of systems. All we have to rely on are our wits, fortitude, and common humanity Contemporary life is not chaotic, in the colloquial sense we apply to disaster zones. It is, however, complex and rapidly changing; much more so than life was in the past; even the very near past. And from this scale of practical effects, complexity emerges. These two features−the global scale of interdependence of human action, and the systematic acceleration of innovation, make contemporary life a bit like a slow motion disaster, in one important respect. That is why we have seen many more systems take on a loose, human centric model in the last decade and a half: from the radical divergence of Toyota’s production system from the highly structured model put in place by Henry Ford, to the Internet’s radical departure from the AT&T system that preceded it, and on to the way Wikipedia constructs human knowledge on the fly, incrementally, in ways that would have been seen, until recently, as too chaotic ever to work (and are still seen so be many). But it is time we acknowledge that systems work best by making work human. Trains and planes, telegraph and telephone, all brought many people into the same causal space.
 The Marshall Plan
 Frederick Taylor's Scientific Management  The New Deal  The Marshall Plan  The Tennessee Valley Authority