Diversity and Complexity

by Scott E. Page

Book Overview

This book provides an introduction to the role of diversity in complex adaptive systems. A complex system--such as an economy or a tropical ecosystem--consists of interacting adaptive entities that produce dynamic patterns and structures. Diversity plays a different role in a complex system than it does in an equilibrium system, where it often merely produces variation around the mean for performance measures. In complex adaptive systems, diversity...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691137676
• ISBN13: 9780691137674
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.4"