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The Economy as an Evolving Complex System IV: Volume One

by R. Maria del Rio-Chanona , Marco Pangallo
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781947864665
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Santa Fe Institute of Science
  • Publisher Imprint: Santa Fe Institute of Science
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  • Pages: 602
  • Original Price: USD 25.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 971 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Economics / Macroeconomics

The contemporary global economy exhibits unprecedented structural complexity-characterized by nonlinear dynamics, adaptive behaviors, and emergent properties. Understanding these phenomena requires theoretical frameworks capable of addressing complexity, path dependence, and evolutionary processes.

Complexity economics has developed to address such intellectual challenges. Originating in a seminal 1987 Santa Fe Institute workshop and first described in The Economy as an Evolving Complex System (1988), this approach fundamentally reconceptualizes economic systems as complex adaptive systems. Subsequent volumes (1997, 2005) progressively developed this framework, offering new insights into finance, technological innovation, and social interactions.

Like each of its predecessors, this fourth volume is the product of an interdisciplinary workshop hosted at the Santa Fe Institute. It represents the latest synthesis, reflecting theoretical advances and methodological developments achieved over nearly four decades. Drawing on contributions from leading scholars worldwide, the chapters span foundational questions to policy applications-from agent-based modeling and network theory to macroeconomic dynamics, innovation systems, sustainability transitions, and inequality.

The result demonstrates complexity economics' capacity to generate novel insights into phenomena that remain puzzling within traditional frameworks: financial instability, technological disruption, climate economics, and institutional change. This volume positions complexity economics as an essential analytical framework for understanding twenty-first-century economic realities.

Volume One includes the introduction and chapters 2 through 15. Chapters 16 through 30 are in Volume Two, available for purchase separately.

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