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Conflict, complexity and mathematical social science /

Conflict, complexity and mathematical social science provides a foundational mathematical approach to the modelling of social conflict. The book illustrates how theory and evidence can be mathematically deepened and how investigations grounded in social choice theory can provide the evidence needed...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Burt, Gordon
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bingley, UK : Emerald, 2010.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Contributions to conflict management, peace economics and development ; v. 15.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction and overview
  • Set theory and social reality
  • Mathematics, logic, artificial intelligence and ordinary language
  • Possibility and probability: value, conflict and choice
  • Theory, evidence and reality: the mean and median ideals of competing groups
  • Social design, ethics and the amount of value
  • Change, multiple-entity systems and complexity
  • Mathematical psychology
  • Models of individual choice
  • Mathematical sociology
  • Mathematical political science and game theory
  • The mathematical economics of social participation; complexity
  • Life and history: the speculative pursuit of value
  • World history: the growth and distribution dynamics of power, truth and value
  • Debating the mathematical science approach to international relations.