Non-Equilibrium Social Science and Policy : Introduction and Essays on New and Changing Paradigms in Socio-Economic Thinking / edited by Jeffrey Johnson, Andrzej Nowak, Paul Ormerod, Bridget Rosewell, Yi-Cheng Zhang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Jeffrey., Editor.

Contributor:

Johnson, Jeffrey, Editor.

Nowak, Andrzej (Andrzej Krzysztof), Editor.

Ormerod, Paul., Editor.

Rosewell, B. (Bridget), Editor.

Zhang, Yi-Cheng., Editor.

Series:

Understanding Complex Systems, 1860-0832

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociophysics.

Econophysics.

Social sciences.

Economics.

Operations research.

Decision making.

Computational complexity.

Social sciences—Data processing.

Social sciences—Computer programs.

Data-driven Science, Modeling and Theory Building.

Methodology of the Social Sciences.

Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.

Operations Research/Decision Theory.

Complexity.

Computational Social Sciences.

Local Subjects:

Data-driven Science, Modeling and Theory Building.

Methodology of the Social Sciences.

Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.

Operations Research/Decision Theory.

Complexity.

Computational Social Sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (VIII, 232 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2017.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The overall aim of this book, an outcome of the European FP7 FET Open NESS project, is to contribute to the ongoing effort to put the quantitative social sciences on a proper footing for the 21st century. A key focus is economics, and its implications on policy making, where the still dominant traditional approach increasingly struggles to capture the economic realities we observe in the world today - with vested interests getting too often in the way of real advances. Insights into behavioral economics and modern computing techniques have made possible both the integration of larger information sets and the exploration of disequilibrium behavior. The domain-based chapters of this work illustrate how economic theory is the only branch of social sciences which still holds to its old paradigm of an equilibrium science - an assumption that has already been relaxed in all related fields of research in the light of recent advances in complex and dynamical systems theory and related data mining. The other chapters give various takes on policy and decision making in this context. Written in nontechnical style throughout, with a mix of tutorial and essay-like contributions, this book will benefit all researchers, scientists, professionals and practitioners interested in learning about the 'thinking in complexity' to understand how socio-economic systems really work.

Contents:

Non-Equilibrium Social Science & Policy

Economics

Social Psychology and Narrative Economy

Sociology and Non-Equilibrium Social Science

Geography far from Equilibrium

Cities in Disequilibrium

The Evolutionary Theory of Globalization

Systems, Networks, and Policy

Towards a Complexity-Friendly Policy: breaking the vicious circle of equilibrium thinking in economic and public policy

The Information Economy

Complexity Science & the Art of Policy Making

The Complexity of Government

The Room Around the Elephant: Tackling Context-Dependency in the Social Sciences

Global Systems Science and Policy

Index. .

Notes:

CC BY

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ISBN:

9783319424248

3319424246

OCLC:

971515805