But empires are ill designed for promoting change; their preoccupation is to hold together, an imperative which tends to breed authoritarianism.
The I.M.F. said Friday in its annual report on the American economy that spending cuts by the United States government that kicked in March 1 were "ill designed" and slowed the economy.
The mechanisms that were ill designed can make an application unreliable and difficult to understand, maintain and reuse in the presence of faults.
I wrote about the fact that I thought public school was ill designed to reform itself because it reforms on incrementalism.
Pressure from demography, climate change and shifts in economic power builds up quietly for a long time and then triggers abrupt shifts.They claim that the current global system is ill-designed for such a world.
Instead, a year after the rescue of Greece, then of Ireland and now of Portugal, anxiety seems to be growing.The EU, with power spread across institutions and countries, is ill-designed to act swiftly in a crisis.
It is important to recognize the loop: societal feedbacks in response to these changes may facilitate the recurrence of disasters or cause a second cycle of inadvertent environmental change if the response misses the target or is ill-designed.
As women who have experienced intimate violence in our lives we anxiously hoped this would be our watershed moment, where we could have constructive, inclusive conversations about assault, survivors and a system that is ill-designed to support us.
"It's also obvious that the Lead and Copper Rule is ill-designed.
