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 technological structures such as roads and computer networks - society can be regarded as a complex system. In recent years, scientists have made great progress...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642289991
• ISBN13: 9783642289996
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 60 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.1" x 10.9"