Without a shred of support I’ll throw out there that perhaps we’re dealing with a scale-free network [1]. There would be no “typical size” for economic disruptions; and it would invalidate all the 20⁄20 hindsight “why did it happen” stories (it makes reading the news a lot more relaxing, I find). I don’t know how to evaluate this hypothesis, though.
Without a shred of support I’ll throw out there that perhaps we’re dealing with a scale-free network [1]. There would be no “typical size” for economic disruptions; and it would invalidate all the 20⁄20 hindsight “why did it happen” stories (it makes reading the news a lot more relaxing, I find). I don’t know how to evaluate this hypothesis, though.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale-free_network