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"Chaos Theory in the Social Sciences: Foundations and Applications offers the most recent thinking in applying the chaos paradigm to the social sciences. The book explores the methodological techniques--and their difficulties--for determining whether chaotic processes may in fact exist in a par...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kiel, L. Douglas, 1956- (Editor ), Elliott, Euel W., 1951- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [1997]
Edición:First paperback edition.
Temas:
Social sciences > Mathematical models.
Chaotic behavior in systems.
Sciences sociales > Modèles mathématiques.
Chaos.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Methodology.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > General.
Chaotic behavior in systems
Social sciences > Mathematical models
Niet-lineaire dynamica.
Sociale wetenschappen.
Social Sciences.
Social Sciences - General.
"Multi-User"
Essays
Essays.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Euel Elliott and L. Douglas Kiel
  • Part 1. Chaotic dynamics in social science data. Exploring nonlinear dynamics with a spreadsheet : a graphical view of chaos for beginners / L. Douglas Kiel and Euel Elliott
  • Probing the underlying structure in dynamical systems : an introduction to spectral analysis / Michael McBurnett
  • Measuring chaos using the Lyapunov exponent / Thad A. Brown
  • The prediction test for nonlinear determinism / Ted Jaditz
  • From individuals to groups : the aggregation of votes and chaotic dynamics / Diana Richards
  • Part 2. Chaos theory and political science. Nonlinear politics / Thad A. Brown
  • The prediction of unpredictability : applications of the new paradigm of chaos in dynamical systems to the old problem of the stability of a system of hostile nations / Alvin M. Saperstein
  • Complexity in the evolution of public opinion / Michael McBurnett
  • Part 3. Chaos theory and economics. Chaos theory and rationality in economics / J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
  • Long waves 1790-1990 : intermittency, chaos, and control / Brian J.L. Berry and Heja Kim
  • Cities as spatial choatic attractors / Dimitrios S. Dendrinos
  • Part 4. Implications for social systems management and social science. Field-theoretic framework for the interpretation of the evolution, instability, structural change, and management of complex systems / Kenyon B. De Greene
  • Social science as the study of complex systems / David L. Harvey and Michael Reed.

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