Why Society is a Complex Matter Meeting Twenty-first Century Challenges with a New Kind of Science

Why Society is a Complex Matter Meeting Twenty-first Century Challenges with a New Kind of Science / by Philip Ball.

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 technol...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ball, Philip (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
Edition:1st ed. 2012.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Sociophysics.
Econophysics.
Social sciences.
Computational complexity.
Application software.
Economic policy.
Economics.
Communication.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
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Table of Contents:
  • Society: a Complex Problem
  •   On the Road: Predicting traffic
  •  Every Move You Make: Patterns of crowd movement
  • Making Your Mind Up: Norms and decisions
  •   Broken Windows: The spread and control of crime
  • The Social Web: Networks and their failures.-   Spreading It Around: Mobility, disease and epidemics
  • After the Crash: Economic and financial systems
  •   Love Thy Neighbour: How to foster cooperation
  • Living Cities: Urban development as a complex system
  • The Transformation of War: Modelling modern conflict
  • Towards a Living Earth Simulator: The FuturICT Project.

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