A top expert explains why a social and economic understanding of complex systems will
help society to anticipate and confront our biggest challenges Imagine trying to understand a …

From the inability of wealth to make us happier, to our catastrophic blindness to the credit
crunch," Economyths" reveals ten ways in which economics has failed us all. Forecasters …

Society is complicated. But this book argues that this does not place it beyond the reach of a
science that can help to explain and perhaps even to predict social behaviour. As a system …

The social and economic complexity of our times triggers intense transformations in the
competitive logics of markets and, broadly speaking, of business systems. Business …

A new view of the economy as an evolving, complex system has been pioneered at the
Santa Fe Institute over the last ten years, This volume is a collection of articles that shape …

Each of these four books provides an examination of two key features haunting current
social science analysis: networks and complexity. Indeed, if one were looking for the likely …

This evening I have been asked to give not a technical talk but a very personal recollection
of how I came to develop the field of system dynamics. There are two threads that ran …

Complex Systems are natural systems that science is unable to describe exhaustively.
Examples of Complex Systems are both unicellular and multicellular living beings; human …

The economy as a whole and most of its constituent parts, like markets, government
institutions, firms, or households, are inherently complex conceptual constructions. Micro …

The term 'systems theory'is used to characterize a set of disparate yet related approaches to
fields as varied as information theory, cybernetics, biology, sociology, history, literature, and …