The way the Euro works is based on a system of interdependence. Like nature's systems, our economies are interlinked in a complex spider's web. Understanding the stability of the Eurozone requires not only an understanding of financial terminology but also the correlation between different economies, how the movement in one effects the movement in another. Economists are the people who study this science, but are they looking in the right places to find the answers to the questions that our economy depends on?

The words economy and ecology both stem from the Ancient Greek root eco, meaning household affairs, home or dwelling and in a broader sense, environment. Perhaps the linguistic connection of the words should immediately point us in the direction we need to turn. The economy, as with an ecosystem relies on a number of elements to be stable. The more complex the network becomes the more factors there are and therefore the more probability is of fluctuation in stability as any one of these factors alone can upset the balance. Some argue that this also somehow works in reverse as the bigger the network is, the more difficult it is to destabilise it completely and therefore small fluctuations can be absorbed. However, ecologists finally disproved this theory in the 1960's when conclusive evidence was gathered indicating that the most simple ecosystems are the most likely to survive. This information does not then seem to have been passed over into the world of economics and the evidence that their fellow ecologists have been sitting on for the past fifty years is only now emerging through the crudity of a trial and error technique.