Physicists are very familiar with forced and parametric resonance, but usually not with self-
oscillation, a property of certain dynamical systems that gives rise to a great variety of …

Recent work in biology, cognitive psychology, and archaeology has renewed evolutionary
perspectives on the role of natural selection in the emergence and recurrent forms of …

Modeling human cognition is challenging because there are infinitely many mechanisms
that can generate any given observation. Some researchers address this by constraining the …

Agent-based modeling (ABM) is a novel computational methodology for representing the
behavior of individuals in order to study social phenomena. Its use is rapidly growing in …

Condition of the Working Class in England (Engels 1845). In that work, published just when
the Marx-Engels partnership was beginning, Engels laid the ground for a good chunk of …

Antifragile is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's landmark Incerto series, an
investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making …

The economics of religion is a relatively new field of research in economics. This survey
serves two purposes—it is backward-looking in that it traces the historical and sociological …

Behavioral economics began with the intention of eliminating the psychological blind spot in
rational choice theory and ended up portraying psychology as the study of irrationality. In its …

Si bien el análisis neoclásico funciona bien para estudiar el intercambio impersonal en los
mercados, no explica por qué las personas se comportan como lo hacen en sus relaciones …

This book draws on a wealth of evidence including young people's own stories, to document
how they are now faring in increasingly unequal societies like America, Britain, Australia …