The Economy As An Evolving Complex System - Hardcover

Anderson, Philip W; Arrow, Kenneth J; Pines, David; Santa Fe Instit

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0201156814 ISBN 13: 9780201156812

Publisher: Basic Books, 1988

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Had a workshop at the Santa Fe Institute. The purpose of the workshop was to explore the potential usefulness of a broadly transdisciplinary research program on the dynamics of the global economic system, by bringing together a group of natural scientists who have developed techniques for studying nonlinear dynamical systems and adaptive paths in evolutionary systems.

About the Author

David Pines is research professor of physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has made pioneering contributions to an understanding of many-body problems in condensed matter and nuclear physics, and to theoretical astrophysics. Editor of Perseus' Frontiers in Physics series and former editor of American Physical Society's Reviews of Modern Physics, Dr. Pines is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, a foreign member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Pines has received a number of awards, including the Eugene Feenberg Memorial Medal for Contributions to Many-Body Theory; the P.A.M. Dirac Silver Medal for the Advancement of Theoretical Physics; and the Friemann Prize in Condensed Matter Physics.

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• Publisher: Basic Books
• Publication date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0201156814
• ISBN 13: 9780201156812
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 317