Conventional, neoclassical economics assumes perfectly rational agents (firms, consumers,
investors) who face well-defined problems and arrive at optimal behaviour consistent with …

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discontinuous changes early, to assess their expected consequences, and to develop a …

This book is a comprehensive introduction to quantitative approaches to complex adaptive
systems. Practically all areas of life on this planet are constantly confronted with complex …

How do technologies develop? This study proposes the theory of technological parasitism
that is based on the idea that parasite-host relationships between technologies and …

“More than anything else technology creates our world. It creates our wealth, our economy,
our very way of being,” says W. Brian Arthur. Yet despite technology's irrefutable importance …

This paper serves as an introduction to many of the themes that follow; it provides a
framework for complexity economics. Complexity economics builds on the proposition that …

How to measure the evolution of technology in order to predict innovations that grow
rapidly? This study suggests a new perspective based on the theory of technological …

This fourth edition of Communication, Cultural and Media Studies: The Key Concepts is an
indispensible guide to the most important terms in the field. It offers clear explanations of the …

This paper explores the process by which radically novel technologies–ones such as radar,
the turbojet, or the polymerase chain reaction–come into being. It shows that this process …

Invention has been commonly conceptualized as a search over a space of combinatorial
possibilities. Despite the existence of a rich literature, spanning a variety of disciplines …