Chaotics - An Agenda for Business and Society in the 21st Century

List of contents

Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgments
Foundations of Chaotics
A Routemap to the Concepts and the Book
An Overview of Chaos and Complexity
Insights from Numbers and Visualizing Chaos
Contrasts in Chaos Theory, Complex Systems Theory, and Greek Omelettes, in the Search for Chaotic Axioms
Business Chaotics: Perspectives on Wealth Creation--a Positive Approach
Production for Increasing Returns
Economics, Intelligence and Turbulence
Technology Forecasting, with a Safety Net
Breakthrough and Soft Landing
Social Chaotics: Principles for Designing and Building Society--a Sea-Change in the Philosophy of Living
Earthly Space-Time Trade-Offs
Employment, Unemployment and Its Antidotes
The Coming Take-Off of the Third World
An Environment in Search of Its Guardians
A Recap
Briefly, Thinking with Chaotics--And Our 21st Century Agenda
Appendices: Computing under Chaotics--Slow Decay versus Self-Organization; Playing Simple Games with Numbers
Bibliography
Glossary of Terms
Index

About the author

Georges Anderla, Anthony Dunning, Simon Forge

Product details

• Authors: Georges Anderla, Anderla Georges, Anthony Dunning, Dunning Anthony, Simon Forge, Forge Simon
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.06.1997
• EAN: 9780275956912
• ISBN: 978-0-275-95691-2
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; Business & Economics / General, Business and Management, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SCIENCE / Chaotic Behavior in Systems, Business & management, Sociology & anthropology, Sociology and anthropology, Chaos Theory, Business: Management