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John H. Miller

A Crude Look at the Whole

The Science of Complex Systems in Business, Life, and Society

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A top expert explains why a social and economic understanding of complex systems will help society to anticipate and confront our biggest challenges 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 looki… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-465-07386-3
  • EAN: 9780465073863
  • Produktnummer: 22913799
  • Verlag: Basic Books
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
  • Seitenangabe: 272 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 6'775 KB
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage

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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