Check out the areas most people are overlooking or taking for granted. Then just sit back and see the obvious. Back to economic design. America's founding fathers, the framers of the Constitution, were political designers - they designed a new polity or political structure. However, in the partitioned minds of the time, it was not identified as such.
Economic design is the same thing with the economy.
The biggest claim is held by the Italian-Swiss historian, Jean de Sismondi, whose major economic opus is still untranslated into English. Our economic design is countercyclical in two ways - We 'timesizers' don't buy the happytalk of this part of the cycle. See our 1920s page for an example of how intense the happytalk got the previous time round. We don't even buy the cycle. It's not a 'business cycle', it's a permanent shift.