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detailed introduction to concepts such as emergence, self-organized criticality, automata, networks, diversity, adaptation, and …, biology, physics, and computer science to illuminate topics in organization, adaptation, decentralization, and robustness …
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detailed introduction to concepts such as emergence, self-organized criticality, automata, networks, diversity, adaptation, and …, biology, physics, and computer science to illuminate topics in organization, adaptation, decentralization, and robustness …
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Economists often act as if their methods explain all human behavior. But in Cents and Sensibility, an eminent literary critic and a leading economist make the case that the humanities, especially the study of literature, offer economists ways to make their models more realistic, their...
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understanding real human behavior. Using insights from psychology, evolution, and complexity, economists are revolutionizing efforts …
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Complexity science—made possible by modern analytical and computational advances—is changing the way we think about …, directing thinking away from creative, innovative policy solutions. Complexity and the Art of Public Policy outlines a new, more … lay out fresh alternatives for framing policy questions. Offering original solutions to stubborn problems, the complexity …
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In the last decade, behavioral economics, borrowing from psychology and sociology to explain decisions inconsistent with traditional economics, has revolutionized the way economists view the world. But despite this general success, behavioral thinking has fundamentally transformed only one field...
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In even the most market-oriented economies, most economic transactions occur not in markets but inside managed organizations, particularly business firms. Organizational economics seeks to understand the nature and workings of such organizations and their impact on economic performance. This...
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thrive in new markets and conditions, when in fact the opposite is likely to be the case. He finds that an organization …’s competitiveness at any given moment hinges on the organization’s historical experience. Through Red Queen competition, weaker … organization. …
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Incentives in Organization; Ilya Segal and Michael D. Whinston: Chapter 3, Property Rights; Steven Tadelis and Oliver E … Organization; Timothy Bresnahan and Jonathan Levin: Chapter 21, Vertical Integration and Market Structure; Henry Hansmann: Chapter …, Relational Incentive Contracts; Claude M´enard: Chapter 26, Hybrid Modes of Organization; Abhijit Banerjee, Rema Hanna and …
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--energy capture per capita, organization, information technology, and war-making capacity--and he uses archaeological, historical, and …
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