While neo-classical analysis works well for studying impersonal exchange in markets, it fails to explain why people conduct themselves the way they do in their personal relationships with family, neighbors, and friends. In Humanomics, Nobel Prize-winning economist Vernon L. Smith and his...

Mit seinem Bestseller "Die Ökonomie von Gut und Böse" positionierte sich Tomas Sedlacek als Star der Kapitalismuskritik. "Die Dämonen des Kapitals" seziert unser Wirtschaftssystem und zeigt: Es ist zutiefst gestört. Viele glauben: Die Wirtschaft funktioniert nach den Gesetzen der Logik. Doch...

Chapter 1: Logical and Philosophical Foundations of Complexity -- Chapter 2: Foundations of Complex Behavioral Economics -- Chapter 3: The Complex Dynamics of Social Interactions -- Chapter 4: Econophysics, Entropy, and Complexity -- Chapter 5: Econophysics and Entropy in Dynamically Complex...

This book presents a survey of the aspects of economic complexity, with a focus on foundational, interdisciplinary ideas. The long-awaited follow up to his 2011 volume Complex Evolutionary Dynamics in Urban-Regional and Ecologic-Economic Systems: From Catastrophe to Chaos and Beyond, this volume...

How do we understand illicit violence? Can we prevent it? Building on behavioral science and economics, this book begins with the idea that humans are more predictable than we like to believe, and this ability to model human behavior applies equally well to leaders of violent and coercive...