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Why information grows : the evolution of order, from atoms to economies /
"Why do some nations prosper while others do not? While economists often turn to measures like GDP or per-capita income to answer this question, interdisciplinary theorist César Hidalgo argues that there is a better way to understand economic success. Instead of measuring the money a country m...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York, New York :
Basic Books,
[2015]
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Prologue: The eternal war
- Introduction: From atoms to people to economies
- Part I. Bits in atoms. The secret to time travel ; The body of the meaningless ; The eternal anomaly
- Part II. Crystallized imagination. Out of our heads! ; Amplifiers
- Part III. The quantization of knowhow. This time, it's personal ; Links are not free ; In links we trust
- Part IV. The complexity of the economy. The evolution of economic complexity ; The sixth substance ; The marriage of knowledge, knowhow, and information
- Part V. Epilogue. The evolution of physical order, from atoms to economics.