Ein grober Blick auf das Ganze: Die Wissenschaft komplexer Systeme in Wirtschaft, Leben und Gesellschaft

Author/Contributor(s):	Miller, John H
Publisher:	Basic Books
Date:	01/05/2016
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

"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 [this book], 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"--Amazon.com.