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Bardi, Ugo |
The Seneca Effect |
I09948 |
2017 |
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Ayres, Robert |
Energy, Complexity and Wealth Maximization |
I09947 |
2016 |
eBook |
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Sefika Sule Ercetin (ed.) |
Chaos, Complexity and Leadership 2018 |
I09488 |
2020 |
eBook |
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Banerjee, Santo |
Chaos, Complexity and Leadership 2012 |
I07920 |
2014 |
eBook |
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Ball, Philip |
Why Society is a Complex Matter |
I07060 |
2012 |
eBook |
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Er??etin, ??efika ??ule |
Chaos, Complexity and Leadership 2013 |
I06622 |
2015 |
eBook |
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Gatti, Domenico |
Emergent Macroeconomics |
I06510 |
2008 |
eBook |
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Skjeltorp, Arne T |
Evolution from Cellular to Social Scales |
I05903 |
2008 |
eBook |
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Mobus, George E |
Principles of Systems Science |
I05799 |
2015 |
eBook |
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| Title | The Seneca Effect : Why Growth is Slow but Collapse is Rapid |
| Author(s) | Bardi, Ugo |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2017. |
| Description | XVIII, 210 p. 57 illus., 21 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | The essence of this book can be found in a line written by the ancient Roman Stoic Philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca: "Fortune is of sluggish growth, but ruin is rapid". This sentence summarizes the features of the phenomenon that we call "collapse," which is typically sudden and often unexpected, like the proverbial "house of cards." But why are such collapses so common, and what generates them? Several books have been published on the subject, including the well-known "Collapse" by Jared Diamond (2005), "The collapse of complex societies" by Joseph Tainter (1998) and "The Tipping Point," by Malcom Gladwell (2000). Why The Seneca Effect? This book is an ambitious attempt to pull these various strands together by describing collapse from a multi-disciplinary viewpoint. The reader will discover how collapse is a collective phenomenon that occurs in what we call today "complex systems," with a special emphasis on system dynamics and t he concept of "feedback." From this foundation, Bardi applies the theory to real-world systems, from the mechanics of fracture and the collapse of large structures to financial collapses, famines and population collapses, the fall of entire civilizations, and the most dreadful collapse we can imagine: that of the planetary ecosystem generated by overexploitation and climate change. The final objective of the book is to describe a conclusion that the ancient stoic philosophers had already discovered long ago, but that modern system science has rediscovered today. If you want to avoid collapse you need to embrace change, not fight it. Neither a book about doom and gloom nor a cornucopianist's dream, The Seneca Effect goes to the heart of the challenges that we are facing today, helping us to manage our future rather than be managed by it. "The Seneca Effect" is probably the most important contribution to our understanding of societal collapse since Jo seph Ta inter's 1988 masterpiece, "The Collapse of Complex Societies." Since we live in a society that is just in the process of rounding the curve from growth to decline, this is information that should be of keen interest to every intelligent person. Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow, Post Carbon Institute, Author, The End of Growth Why do human societies collapse? With today's environmental, social and political challenges it is a question that is more than academic. What can we learn from history? How can we avoid the pitfalls? In this fascinating, well written book, Ugo Bardi provides many of the answers. Here is a book to feast on, to devour and be stimulated by, a book packed full of insights and ideas which will leave the reader satisfied, curious and stimulated. Simply wonderful. Graeme Maxton, Secretary General of the Club of Rome |
| ISBN,Price | 9783319572079 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos Theory
2. COMPLEXITY
3. COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY
4. Data-driven Science, Modeling and Theory Building
5. EBOOK
6. EBOOK - SPRINGER
7. ECONOMIC POLICY
8. Economic sociology
9. ECONOMICS
10. ECONOPHYSICS
11. Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology
12. Phase transitions (Statistical physics)
13. Phase Transitions and Multiphase Systems
14. Political Economy/Economic Systems
15. Sociophysics
16. STATISTICAL PHYSICS
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| Title | Energy, Complexity and Wealth Maximization |
| Author(s) | Ayres, Robert |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2016. |
| Description | XXV, 593 p. 121 illus., 120 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book is about the mechanisms of wealth creation, or what we like to think of as evolutionary ???progress???. For the modern economy, natural wealth consists of complex physical structures of condensed (???frozen???) energy ??? mass - maintained in the earth???s crust far from thermodynamic equilibrium. However, we usually perceive wealth as created when mutation or ???invention??? ??? a change agent - introduces something different, and fitter, and usually after some part of the natural wealth of the planet has been exploited in an episode of ???creative destruction???. Selection out of the resulting diversity is determined by survival in a competitive environment, whether a planet, a habitat, or a market. While human wealth is associated with money and what it can buy, it is ultimately based on natural wealth, both as materials transformed into useful artifacts, and how those artifacts, activated by energy, can create and transmit useful information. Humans have learned how to transform natural wealth into other forms. Can the new immaterial wealth of information and ideas, which makes up the so-called knowledge economy, replace depleted natural wealth? This seemingly simple question is the grand challenge of the 21st century. In this book, you will learn about the three key requirements for wealth creation, and how this process acts at all scales from elementary particles to biological organisms to the human economy according to physical laws. At the planetary level, continuing life on Earth depends on ???entropy minimization??? or the ???circular economy???. In the human economy, however, the massive circular flow of goods and services between producers and consumers is not a perpetual motion machine; it has been dependent for the past 150 years on energy inputs from a finite storage of fossil fuels. Knowledge and natural capital, particularly energy, will interact to power the human wealth engine in the future as it has in the past. Will it sputter or continue along the path of evolutionary progress that we have come to expect? |
| ISBN,Price | 9783319305455 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Data-driven Science, Modeling and Theory Building
2. EBOOK
3. EBOOK - SPRINGER
4. ECONOMIC POLICY
5. ECONOMICS
6. ECONOPHYSICS
7. Energy and state
8. Energy policy
9. Energy Policy, Economics and Management
10. Natural Resource and Energy Economics
11. Natural resources
12. Political Economy/Economic Systems
13. Sociophysics
14. THERMODYNAMICS
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| Title | Chaos, Complexity and Leadership 2018 : Explorations of Chaotic and Complexity Theory |
| Author(s) | Sefika Sule Ercetin (ed.);Suay Nilhan Acikalin (ed.) |
| Publication | Cham 2020. |
| Description | XI, 291 p. 64 illus., 51 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Chaos, Complexity and Leadership (ICCLS). Written by interdisciplinary researchers and students from the fields of mathematics, physics, education, economics, political science, statistics, the management sciences and social sciences, the peer-reviewed contributions explore chaotic and complex systems, as well as chaos and complexity theory in the context of their applicability to management and leadership. The book discusses current topics, such as complexity leadership in the healthcare fields and tourism industry, conflict management and organization intelligence, and presents practical applications of theoretical concepts, making it a valuable resource for managers and leaders |
| ISBN,Price | 9783030276720 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos Theory
2. COMPLEXITY
3. COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY
4. DECISION MAKING
5. EBOOK
6. EBOOK - SPRINGER
7. ECONOMIC POLICY
8. Economic sociology
9. ECONOMICS
10. OPERATIONS RESEARCH
11. Operations Research/Decision Theory
12. Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology
13. Political Economy/Economic Systems
14. STATISTICAL PHYSICS
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| Title | Chaos, Complexity and Leadership 2012 |
| Author(s) | Banerjee, Santo;Er??etin, ??efika ??ule |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 2014. |
| Description | XIII, 568 p. 110 illus., 41 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | These proceedings from the 2012 symposium on "Chaos, complexity and leadership"?? reflect current research results from all branches of Chaos, Complex Systems and their applications in Management. Included are the diverse results in the fields of applied nonlinear methods, modeling of data and simulations, as well as theoretical achievements of Chaos and Complex Systems. Also highlighted are?? Leadership and Management applications of Chaos and Complexity Theory |
| ISBN,Price | 9789400773622 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Applications of Graph Theory and Complex Networks
2. COMPLEX SYSTEMS
3. COMPLEXITY
4. COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY
5. EBOOK
6. EBOOK - SPRINGER
7. ECONOMIC POLICY
8. Economic sociology
9. ECONOMICS
10. Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology
11. PHYSICS
12. Political Economy/Economic Systems
13. SYSTEM THEORY
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| Title | Why Society is a Complex Matter : Meeting Twenty-first Century Challenges with a New Kind of Science |
| Author(s) | Ball, Philip |
| Publication | Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012. |
| Description | 80 p. 35 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | 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 made up of many interacting agents ??? people, groups, institutions and governments, as well as physical and technological structures such as roads and computer networks ??? society can be regarded as a complex system. In recent years, scientists have made great progress in understanding how such complex systems operate, ranging from animal populations to earthquakes and weather. These systems show behaviours that cannot be predicted or intuited by focusing on the individual components, but which emerge spontaneously as a consequence of their interactions: they are said to be ???self-organized???. Attempts to direct or manage such emergent properties generally reveal that ???top-down??? approaches, which try to dictate a particular outcome, are ineffectual, and that what is needed instead is a ???bottom-up??? approach that aims to guide self-organization towards desirable states. This book shows how some of these ideas from the science of complexity can be applied to the study and management of social phenomena, including traffic flow, economic markets, opinion formation and the growth and structure of cities. Building on these successes, the book argues that the complex-systems view of the social sciences has now matured sufficiently for it to be possible, desirable and perhaps essential to attempt a grander objective: to integrate these efforts into a unified scheme for studying, understanding and ultimately predicting what happens in the world we have made. Such a scheme would require the mobilization and collaboration of many different research communities, and would allow society and its interactions with the physical environment to be explored through realistic models and large-scale data collection and analysis. It should enable us to find new and effective solutions to major global problems such as conflict, disease, financial instability, environmental despoliation and poverty, while avoiding unintended policy consequences. It could give us the foresight to anticipate and ameliorate crises, and to begin tackling some of the most intractable problems of the twenty-first century |
| ISBN,Price | 9783642290008 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. APPLICATION SOFTWARE
2. COMMUNICATION
3. Communication Studies
4. COMPLEXITY
5. COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY
6. Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences
7. Data-driven Science, Modeling and Theory Building
8. EBOOK
9. EBOOK - SPRINGER
10. ECONOMIC POLICY
11. ECONOMICS
12. ECONOPHYSICS
13. Methodology of the Social Sciences
14. Political Economy/Economic Systems
15. SOCIAL SCIENCES
16. Sociophysics
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| Title | Chaos, Complexity and Leadership 2013 |
| Author(s) | Er??etin, ??efika ??ule;Banerjee, Santo |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2015. |
| Description | XIII, 566 p. 37 illus., 30 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | These proceedings from the 2013 symposium on "Chaos, complexity and leadership" reflect current research results from all branches of Chaos, Complex Systems and their applications in Management. Included are the diverse results in the fields of applied nonlinear methods, modeling of data and simulations, as well as theoretical achievements of Chaos and Complex Systems. Also highlighted are Leadership and Management applications of Chaos and Complexity Theory |
| ISBN,Price | 9783319097107 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Applications of Graph Theory and Complex Networks
2. COMPLEX SYSTEMS
3. COMPLEXITY
4. COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY
5. EBOOK
6. EBOOK - SPRINGER
7. ECONOMIC POLICY
8. Economic sociology
9. ECONOMICS
10. Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology
11. PHYSICS
12. Political Economy/Economic Systems
13. SYSTEM THEORY
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| Title | Emergent Macroeconomics : An Agent-Based Approach to Business Fluctuations |
| Author(s) | Gatti, Domenico;Gaffeo, Edoardo;Gallegati, Mauro;Giulioni, Gianfranco;Palestrini, Antonio |
| Publication | Milano, Springer Milan, 2008. |
| Description | XII, 114 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book contributes substantively to the current state-of-the-art of macroeconomics by providing a method for building models in which business cycles and economic growth emerge from the interactions of a large number of heterogeneous agents. Drawing from recent advances in agent-based computational modeling, the authors show how insights from dispersed fields like the microeconomics of capital market imperfections, industrial dynamics and the theory of stochastic processes can be fruitfully combined to improve our understanding of macroeconomic dynamics. This book should be a valuable resource for all researchers interested in analyzing macroeconomic issues without recurring to a fictitious representative agent |
| ISBN,Price | 9788847007253 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. COMPLEX SYSTEMS
2. DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. ECONOMIC POLICY
6. ECONOMICS
7. FINANCE
8. Finance, general
9. Industrial Organization
10. MACROECONOMICS
11. Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics
12. Political Economy/Economic Systems
13. STATISTICAL PHYSICS
14. Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems
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| Title | Evolution from Cellular to Social Scales |
| Author(s) | Skjeltorp, Arne T;Belushkin, Alexander V |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 2008. |
| Description | XIV, 186 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Evolution is a critical challenge for many areas of science, technology and development of society. The book reviews general evolutionary facts such as origin of life and evolution of the genome and clues to evolution through simple systems. Emerging areas of science such as "systems biology" and "bio-complexity" are founded on the idea that phenomena need to be understood in the context of highly interactive processes operating at different levels and on different scales. This is where physics meets complexity in nature, and where we must begin to learn about complexity if we are to understand it. Similarly, there is an increasingly urgent need to understand and predict the evolutionary behavior of highly interacting man-made systems, in areas such as communications and transport, which permeate the modern world. The same applies to the evolution of human networks such as social, political and financial systems, where technology has tended to vastly increase both the complexity and speed of interaction, which is sometimes effectively instantaneous. The book contains reviews on such diverse areas as evolution experiments with microorganisms, the origin and evolution of viruses, evolutionary dynamics of genes and environment in cancer development, aging as an evolution-facilitating program, evolution of vision and evolution of financial markets |
| ISBN,Price | 9781402087615 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics
2. BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS
3. BIOPHYSICS
4. COMPLEX SYSTEMS
5. DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS
6. Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory
7. DYNAMICS
8. EBOOK
9. EBOOK - SPRINGER
10. ECONOMIC POLICY
11. ECONOMICS
12. ERGODIC THEORY
13. Evolutionary Biology
14. Political Economy/Economic Systems
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| Title | Principles of Systems Science |
| Author(s) | Mobus, George E;Kalton, Michael C |
| Publication | New York, NY, Springer New York, 2015. |
| Description | XXXVI, 755 p. 199 illus., 163 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This pioneering text provides a comprehensive introduction to systems structure, function, and modeling as applied in all fields of science and engineering. Systems understanding is increasingly recognized as a key to a more holistic education and greater problem solving skills, and is also reflected in the trend toward interdisciplinary approaches to research on complex phenomena. The subject of systems science, as a basis for understanding the components and drivers of phenomena at all scales, should be viewed with the same importance as a traditional liberal arts education. Principles of Systems Science contains many graphs, illustrations, side bars, examples, and problems to enhance understanding. From basic principles of organization, complexity, abstract representations, and behavior (dynamics) to deeper aspects such as the relations between information, knowledge, computation, and system control, to higher order aspects such as auto-organization, emergence and evolution, the book provides an integrated perspective on the comprehensive nature of systems. It ends with practical aspects such as systems analysis, computer modeling, and systems engineering that demonstrate how the knowledge of systems can be used to solve problems in the real world. ??Each chapter is broken into parts beginning with qualitative descriptions that stand alone for students who have taken intermediate algebra. The second part?? presents quantitative descriptions that are based on pre-calculus and advanced algebra, providing a more formal treatment for students who have the necessary mathematical background. Understanding these basics enables further understanding both of how systems endure and how they may become increasingly complex and exhibit new properties or characteristics. ?????????????????? Serves as a textbook for teaching systems fundamentals in any discipline or for use in an introductory course in systems science degree programs ?????????????????? Addresses a wide range of audiences with different levels of mathematical sophistication ?????????????????? Includes open-ended questions in special boxes intended to stimulate integrated thinking and class discussion ?????????????????? Describes numerous examples of systems in science and society ?????????????????? Captures the trend towards interdisciplinary research and problem solving |
| ISBN,Price | 9781493919208 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Applications of Graph Theory and Complex Networks
2. COMPLEX SYSTEMS
3. COMPLEXITY
4. COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY
5. DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS
6. EBOOK
7. EBOOK - SPRINGER
8. ECONOMIC POLICY
9. ECONOMICS
10. PHYSICS
11. Political Economy/Economic Systems
12. STATISTICAL PHYSICS
13. Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems
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