TY  - BOOK
ED  - Johnson, Jeffrey
ED  - Nowak, Andrzej
ED  - Ormerod, Paul
ED  - Rosewell, Bridget
ED  - Zhang, Yi-Cheng
AB  - The overall aim of this book, an outcome of the European FP7 FET Open NESS project, is to contribute to the ongoing effort to put the quantitative social sciences on a proper footing for the 21st century. A key focus is economics, and its implications on policy making, where the still dominant traditional approach increasingly struggles to capture the economic realities we observe in the world today - with vested interests getting too often in the way of real advances. Insights into behavioral economics and modern computing techniques have made possible both the integration of larger information sets and the exploration of disequilibrium behavior. The domain-based chapters of this work illustrate how economic theory is the only branch of social sciences which still holds to its old paradigm of an equilibrium science - an assumption that has already been relaxed in all related fields of research in the light of recent advances in complex and dynamical systems theory and related data mining. The other chapters give various takes on policy and decision making in this context. Written in nontechnical style throughout, with a mix of tutorial and essay-like contributions, this book will benefit all researchers, scientists, professionals and practitioners interested in learning about the 'thinking in complexity' to understand how socio-economic systems really work.
DO  - 10.1007/978-3-319-42424-8
ID  - OAPEN ID: ONIX_20201113_9783319424248_5
KW  - Data-driven Science, Modeling and Theory Building
KW  - Methodology of the Social Sciences
KW  - Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods
KW  - Operations Research/Decision Theory
KW  - Complexity
KW  - Computational Social Sciences
KW  - Complex Systems
KW  - Biotechnology
KW  - Quantitative Economics
KW  - Operations Research and Decision Theory
KW  - Applied Dynamical Systems
KW  - Behavioral economics
KW  - Complex socio-economic systems
KW  - Econophysics and Social Dynamics
KW  - Information economy and policy informatics
KW  - Paradigm shift in economic thinking
KW  - Social dynamics in policy
KW  - Quantitative social sciences
KW  - Social research & statistics
KW  - Ecological science, the Biosphere
KW  - Economic theory & philosophy
KW  - Operational research
KW  - Management decision making
KW  - Cybernetics & systems theory
KW  - Computer applications in the social & behavioural sciences
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/657dcacf-1ac2-4eb7-8709-d59989051057/2017_Book_Non-EquilibriumSocialScienceAn.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/42899
PB  - Springer Nature
PY  - 2017
TI  - Non-Equilibrium Social Science and Policy : Introduction and Essays on New and Changing Paradigms in Socio-Economic Thinking
ER  - 
