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Non-equilibrium social science and policy : introduction and essays on new and changing paradigms in socio-economic thinking /

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The overall aim of this book, an outcome of the European FP7 FET Open NESS project, is to contribute to the ongoing effort to put the quantitative social sciences on a proper footing for the 21st century. A key focus is economics, and its implications on policy making, where the still dominant tradi...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Johnson, J. (Jeffrey) (Editor), Nowak, Andrzej (Andrzej Krzysztof) (Editor), Ormerod, Paul (Editor), Rosewell, B. (Bridget) (Editor), Zhang, Yi-Cheng, 1956- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2017.
Series:Understanding complex systems.
Springer complexity.
Subjects:
Economics > Sociological aspects.
Social sciences and state.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Non-Equilibrium Social Science & Policy
  • Economics
  • Social Psychology and Narrative Economy
  • Sociology and Non-Equilibrium Social Science
  • Geography far from Equilibrium
  • Cities in Disequilibrium
  • The Evolutionary Theory of Globalization
  • Systems, Networks, and Policy
  • Towards a Complexity-Friendly Policy: breaking the vicious circle of equilibrium thinking in economic and public policy
  • The Information Economy
  • Complexity Science & the Art of Policy Making
  • The Complexity of Government
  • The Room Around the Elephant: Tackling Context-Dependency in the Social Sciences
  • Global Systems Science and Policy
  • Index. .