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Title
Non-equilibrium social science and policy : introduction and essays on new and changing paradigms in socio-economic thinking / Jeffrey Johnson, Andrzej Nowak, Paul Ormerod, Bridget Rosewell, Yi-Cheng Zhang, editors.
ISBN
9783319424248 (electronic book)
3319424246 (electronic book)
9783319424224
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2017.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (viii, 232 pages).
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-319-42424-8 doi
Call Number
HM548
Dewey Decimal Classification
330.01
Summary
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 traditional approach increasingly struggles to capture the economic realities we observe in the world today - with vested interests getting too often in the way of real advances. Insights into behavioral economics and modern computing techniques have made possible both the integration of larger information sets and the exploration of disequilibrium behavior. The domain-based chapters of this work illustrate how economic theory is the only branch of social sciences which still holds to its old paradigm of an equilibrium science - an assumption that has already been relaxed in all related fields of research in the light of recent advances in complex and dynamical systems theory and related data mining. The other chapters give various takes on policy and decision making in this context. Written in nontechnical style throughout, with a mix of tutorial and essay-like contributions, this book will benefit all researchers, scientists, professionals and practitioners interested in learning about the 'thinking in complexity' to understand how socio-economic systems really work.
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Includes index.
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Open access.
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text file PDF
Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed February 7, 2017).
Series
Understanding complex systems.
Springer complexity.
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9783319424224
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. .
