Non-Equilibrium Social Science and Policy : Introduction and Essays on New and Changing Paradigms in Socio-Economic Thinking
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Non-Equilibrium Social Science and Policy : Introduction and Essays on New and Changing Paradigms in Socio-Economic Thinking

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Non-Equilibrium Social Science and Policy : Introduction and Essays on New and Changing Paradigms in Socio-Economic Thinking

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgments
  2. Contents
  3. Non-Equilibrium Social Science and Policy
  4. Economics
  5. Social Psychology and the Narrative Economy
  6. Sociology and Non-Equilibrium Social Science
  7. Geography Far from Equilibrium
  8. Cities in Disequilibrium
  9. Global Political Dynamics and the Science of Complex Systems
  10. Systems, Networks, and Policy
  11. Towards a Complexity-Friendly Policy: Breaking the Vicious Circle of Equilibrium Thinking in Economics and Public Policy
  12. The Information Economy
  13. Complexity Science and the Art of Policy Making
  14. The Complexity of Government
  15. The Room Around the Elephant: Tackling Context-Dependency in the Social Sciences
  16. Global Systems Science and Policy
  17. Index