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  • Cities and Regions as Self-Organizing Systems

    Models of Complexity

    de Peter M. Allen ...
    A clear methodological and philosophical introduction to complexity theory as applied to urban and regional systems is given, together with a detailed series of modelling case studies compiled over the last couple of decades. Based on the new complex systems thinking, mathematical models are developed which attempt to simulate the evolution of towns, cities, and regions and the complicated co ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • Self-Organization and Dissipative Structures

    Applications in the Physical and Social Sciences

    Edición de William C. Schieve, Peter M. Allen ...
    The contributions to this volume attempt to apply different aspects of Ilya Prigogine's Nobel-prize-winning work on dissipative structures to nonchemical systems as a way of linking the natural and social sciences. They address both the mathematical methods for description of pattern and form as they evolve in biological systems and the mechanisms of the evolution of social systems, containing ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

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  • Climate Change

    The Facts

    de Alan Moran (editor), Dr Richard S. Lindzen ~ Dr Jennifer Marohasy ~ Dr Ross McKitrick ~ Dr Patrick J. Michaels ~ Dr Alan Moran ~ Jo Nova ~ Dr Garth W. Paltridge ~ Dr Ian Plimer ~ Dr Willie Soon ~ Mark Steyn~Anthony Watts, Dr John Abbot ~ Dr J. Scott Armstrong ~ Andrew Bolt ~ Dr Robert M. Carter ~ Rupert Darwall ~ James Delingpole ~ Dr Christopher Essex ~ Dr Stewart W. Franks ~ Dr Kesten C. Green ~ Donna Laframboise ~ Nigel Lawson ~ Bernard Lewin ~ ...
    Stockade Books and The Institute of Public Affairs are proud to publish Climate Change: The Facts, featuring 22 essays on the science, politics and economics of the climate change debate. Climate Change: The Facts features the world’s leading experts and commentators on climate change.Highlights of Climate Change: The Facts include:Ian Plimer draws on the geological record to dismiss the possibili ... Leer más

    $9.96 USD

  • Complex Adaptive Systems

    An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life

    de John H. Miller, Scott Page ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Complexity
    This book provides the first clear, comprehensive, and accessible account of complex adaptive social systems, by two of the field's leading authorities. Such systems--whether political parties, stock markets, or ant colonies--present some of the most intriguing theoretical and practical challenges confronting the social sciences. Engagingly written, and balancing technical detail with intuitive ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Economyths

    How the Science of Complex Systems is Transforming Economic Thought

    de David Orrell ...
    From the inability of wealth to make us happier, to our catastrophic blindness to the credit crunch, "Economyths" reveals ten ways in which economics has failed us all. Forecasters predicted a prosperous year in 2008 for financial markets - in one influential survey the average prediction was for an eleven per cent gain. But by the end of the year, the Standard and Poor's 500 index - a key ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Reason in a Dark Time

    Why the Struggle Against Climate Change Failed -- and What It Means for Our Future

    de Dale Jamieson ...
    From the 1992 Rio Earth Summit to the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Conference there was a concerted international effort to stop climate change. Yet greenhouse gas emissions increased, atmospheric concentrations grew, and global warming became an observable fact of life. In this book, philosopher Dale Jamieson explains what climate change is, why we have failed to stop it, and why it still matters what ... Leer más

    $25.69 USD

  • The Spatial Economy

    Cities, Regions, and International Trade

    de Masahisa Fujita, Paul Krugman, Anthony J. Venables ...
    The authors show how a common approach that emphasizes the three-way interaction among increasing returns, transportation costs, and the movement of productive factors can be applied to a wide range of issues in urban, regional, and international economics.Since 1990 there has been a renaissance of theoretical and empirical work on the spatial aspects of the economy—that is, where economic ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

  • Smart Solutions to Climate Change

    Comparing Costs and Benefits

    Edición de Bjørn Lomborg ...
    The failure of the Copenhagen climate conference in December 2009 revealed major flaws in the way the world's policymakers have attempted to prevent dangerous levels of increases in global temperatures. The expert authors in this specially commissioned collection focus on the likely costs and benefits of a very wide range of policy options, including geo-engineering, mitigation of CO2, methane and ... Leer más

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  • The Origin of Wealth

    The Radical Remaking of Economics and What it Means for Business and Society

    de Eric D. Beinhocker ...
    Over 6.4 billion people participate in a $36.5 trillion global economy, designed and overseen by no one. How did this marvel of self-organized complexity evolve? How is wealth created within this system? And how can wealth be increased for the benefit of individuals, businesses, and society? In The Origin of Wealth, Eric D. Beinhocker argues that modern science provides a radical perspective on ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Climate Matters

    Ethics in a Warming World

    de John Broome ...
    Series series Norton Global Ethics Series
    A vital new moral perspective on the climate change debate.Esteemed philosopher John Broome avoids the familiar ideological stances on climate change policy and examines the issue through an invigorating new lens. As he considers the moral dimensions of climate change, he reasons clearly through what universal standards of goodness and justice require of us, both as citizens and as governments. ... Leer más

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  • Chaos Theory in the Social Sciences

    Foundations and Applications

    Edición de L. Douglas Kiel, Euel W. Elliott ...
    Chaos Theory in the Social Sciences: Foundations and Applications offers the most recent thinking in applying the chaos paradigm to the social sciences. The book explores the methodological techniques--and their difficulties--for determining whether chaotic processes may in fact exist in a particular instance and examines implications of chaos theory when applied specifically to political science, ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Unified Growth Theory

    de Oded Galor ...
    For most of the vast span of human history, economic growth was all but nonexistent. Then, about two centuries ago, some nations began to emerge from this epoch of economic stagnation, experiencing sustained economic growth that led to significant increases in standards of living and profoundly altered the level and distribution of wealth, population, education, and health across the globe. The ... Leer más

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