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A top expert explains why a social and economic understanding of complex systems will help society to anticipate and confront our biggest challenges Imagine trying to understand a stained glass window by breaking it into pieces and examining it one shard at a time. While you could probably learn a lot about each piece, you would have no idea about what the entire picture looks like. This is reductionism -- the idea that to understand the world we only need to study its pieces -- and it is how most social scientists approach their work. In A Crude Look at the Whole, social scientist and economist John H. Miller shows why we need to start looking at whole pictures. For one thing, whether we are talking about stock markets, computer networks, or biological organisms, individual parts only make sense when we remember that they are part of larger wholes. And perhaps more importantly, those wholes can take on behaviors that are strikingly different from that of their pieces. Miller, a leading expert in the computational study of complex adaptive systems, reveals astounding global patterns linking the organization of otherwise radically different structures: It might seem crude, but a bee

Who reads A Crude Look at the Whole : The Science of Complex Systems in Business, Life, and Society?

Author

John H. Miller

Publisher

Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780465055692

Category

science

Subjects

Economics, Fiction, Computer Science

Rating

3.68 / 5 (69 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14