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What happens when the systems we rely on go haywire?
Can we learn to predict and control the systems essential to our survival?
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What can Mother Nature teach us about managing financial systems?
Like ecosystems, financial markets are complex evolving systems from which unexpected bubbles, crashes, and other surprising behaviors can emerge. Building resilient financial systems may require policymakers to take cues from biology.
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Water management is a wicked problem, but not an unsolvable one
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The complex economics of self interest
In social systems, incentives can work in perverse ways.
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The source code of political power
Human interaction is a march toward change and turmoil – not stability.
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Beehives and voting booths
There’s order in the chaos of presidential primaries, but is there wisdom?
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Why people become terrorists
How violent extremism emerges from complex social systems.
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Engineered societies
Can science help orchestrate social outcomes? Should it?
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Are humans truly unique? How do we know?
The fourth piece in a year-long series about complexity science by the Santa Fe Institute and The Christian Science Monitor. Read our other entries at breakthroughs.csmonitor.com.
Complexity: Worlds hidden in plain sight
Part of a continuing series about complexity science by the Santa Fe Institute and The Christian Science Monitor, generously supported by Arizona State University.
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Old economic models couldn't predict the recession. Time for new ones.
The US uses ‘Big Computing’ to analyze climate, healthcare, and even traffic – why not the economy?
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A planet of cities
Why all cities – despite their unique geographies, cultures, and accidents of history – are really the same.
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Complexity: Worlds hidden in plain sight
Part of a continuing series about complexity science by the Santa Fe Institute and The Christian Science Monitor, generously supported by Arizona State University.
