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The self-organizing economy
- Title
- The self-organizing economy / Paul Krugman.
- Author
- Krugman, Paul R.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 1996.
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- Description
- vi, 122 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- In the last few years the concept of self-organizing systems - of complex systems in which randomness and chaos seem spontaneously to evolve into unexpected order - has linked together researchers in many fields, from artificial intelligence to chemistry, from evolution to geology.
- Now leading economist Paul Krugman shows how principles that explain the growth of hurricanes and embryos can also explain the formation of cities and business cycles; how the same principles of "order from random growth" can explain the strangely simple rules that describe the sizes of earthquakes, meteorites, and metropolitan areas.
- Weaving together strands from many disciplines, from location theory to biology, The Self-Organizing Economy offers a surprising new view of how the economy structures itself in space and time.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-118) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Self-Organization in Space -- 2. Complex Landscapes -- 3. An Urban Mystery -- 4. Principles of Self-Organization -- 5. Where We Stand -- 6. Dynamics in Self-Organizing Systems -- 7. Temporal Self-Organization -- 8. Models of Spatial Self-Organization -- 9. Concluding Thoughts -- 10. Appendix: The Evolution of Central Places.
- ISBN
- 1557866988 (hc)
- 1557866996 (pb)
- LCCN
- 95031593
- OCLC
- ocm32819904
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries