Complexity and co-evolution : continuity and change in socio-economic systems

Title
  1. Complexity and co-evolution : continuity and change in socio-economic systems / edited by Elizabeth Garnsey and James McGlade.
Published by
  1. Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, ©2006.

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Additional authors
  1. Garnsey, Elizabeth, 1945-
  2. McGlade, James, 1950-
Description
  1. ix, 219 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
Summary
  1. "This book applies ideas and methods from the complexity perspective to key concerns in the social sciences, exploring co-evolutionary processes that have not yet been addressed in the technical or popular literature on complexity."--Jacket.
Subject
  1. Social structure
  2. Economic history
  3. Chaotic behavior in systems
  4. social structure
  5. Chaotisches System
  6. Evolutorische Wirtschaft
  7. Komplexität
  8. Sozioökonomischer Wandel
  9. Systemtheorie
Contents
  1. 1. The nature of complexity / James McGlade and Elizabeth Garnsey -- 2. Evolution, diversity and organization / Peter Allen, Mark Strathern and James Baldwin -- 3. Cities : continuity, transformation and emergence / Michael Batty, Joana Barros and Sinesio Alves Junior -- 4. Ecohistorical regimes and la longue duree : an approach to mapping long-term societal change / James McGlade -- 5. Restless capitalism : a complexity perspective on modern capitalist economies / Ronnie Ramlogan and J. Stanley Metcalfe -- 6. Industrial resilience and decline : a co-evolutionary framework / James McGlade, Robert Murray, James Baldwin, Keith Ridgway and Belinda Winder.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.