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Critical Mass

how one thing leads to another. Being an enquiry into the interplay of chance and necessity in the way that human culture, customs, institutions, cooperation and conflict arise
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Jahr: 2005
Verlag: London, Arrow
Mediengruppe: Buch
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Is there a 'physics of society'? Philip Ball's investigation into human nature ranges from Hobbes and Adam Smith to modern work on traffic flow and market trading, across economics, sociology and psychology. Ball shows how much of human behaviour we can understand when we cease trying to predict and analyse the behaviour of individuals and look to the impact of hundreds, thousands or millions of individual human decisions, in circumstances in which human beings both co-operate and conflict, when their aggregate behaviour is constructive and when it is destructive. By perhaps Britain's leading young science writer, this is a deeply thought-provoking book, causing us to examine our own behaviour, whether in buying the new Harry Potter book, voting for a particular party or responding to the lures of advertisers.

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Verfasser*in: Suche nach Verfasser*in Ball, Philip
Verfasser*innenangabe: Philip Ball
Jahr: 2005
Verlag: London, Arrow
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Systematik: Suche nach dieser Systematik GW.AP, FS.E
Interessenkreis: Suche nach diesem Interessenskreis Sprache: Englisch
ISBN: 0-09-945786-5
Beschreibung: XII, 644 S. : Ill., graph. Darst.
Schlagwörter: Menschliches Verhalten, Wirkung, Zufall, Großgruppe, Zufälle, Zufälligkeit
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Mediengruppe: Buch