Complex Evolutionary Dynamics in Urban-Regional and Ecologic-Economic Systems: From Catastrophe to Chaos and Beyond

by J. Barkley Rosser Jr.

Book Overview

Drawing on the middle chapters from the first edition of J. Barkley Rosser's seminal work, From Catastrophe to Chaos, this book presents an unusual perspective on economics and economic analysis. Current economic theory largely depends upon assuming that the world is fundamentally continuous. However, an increasing amount of economic research has been done using approaches that allow for discontinuities such as catastrophe theory, chaos...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441988270
• ISBN13: 9781441988270
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"