A Crude Look at the Whole: The Science of Complex Systems in Business, Life, and Society
Imagine trying to understand a stained glass window by breaking it into pieces and examining it one shard at a time. While you could probably learn a lot about each piece, you would have no idea about what the entire picture looks like. This is reductionism,the idea that to understand the world we only need to study its pieces,and it is how most social scientists approach their work.In A Crude Look at the Whole , social scientist and economist John H. Miller shows why we need to start looking at whole pictures. For one thing, whether we are talking about stock markets, computer networks, or biological organisms, individual parts only make se…
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- ISBN: 978-0-465-05569-2
- EAN: 9780465055692
- Produktnummer: 20695418
- Verlag: Basic Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Masse: H21.8 cm x B13.4 cm x D3.0 cm 386 g
- Gewicht: 386
Über den Autor
John H. Miller is a professor of economics and social science at Carnegie Mellon University and the head of the university's Department of Social and Decision Sciences. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan, and serves on the faculty of the Santa Fe Institute.
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