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      Modelling the Coevolution of Communications and Socio-economic Structure

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      Keywords: self-organisation, evolution, economic modeling, technological change, markets, communication
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            Abstract

            Economic modelling that employs ‘the complex systems’ approach shows that factors such as communication and diversity are vital to systematic function and evolution. A ‘complex systems’ model of market evolution is presented and discussed to illustrate these issues.

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            Journal ID (publisher-id): cpro20
            Journal ID (archive): CPRO
            Title: Prometheus
            Subtitle: Critical Studies in Innovation
            Publisher: Pluto Journals
            ISSN (Print): 0810-9028
            ISSN (Electronic): 1470-1030
            Publication date (Print): April 1997
            Volume: 15
            Issue: 1
            Pages: 83-100
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            Publisher ID: 8632053 Coden ID: Prometheus, Vol. 15, No. 1, 1997: pp. 83–100
            DOI: 10.1080/08109029708632053
            SO-VID: 1a8a68f8-2a7c-4ea2-99c1-7af92e0007a9
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            ScienceOpen disciplines: Computer science,Arts,Social & Behavioral Sciences,Law,History,Economics
            Keywords: communication,self-organisation,technological change,evolution,economic modeling,markets

            Notes and References

            1. Paper presented at the STEP Conference, 30 November-5 December, 1996, Department of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.

            2. International Ecotechnology Research Centre, Cranfield Institute of Technology, Bedford, MK43 OAL, UK.

            3. I. Prigogine & I. Stengers, Order out of Chaos (New York, Bantam Books, 1987).

            4. P. M. Allen, Evolution: Why the Whole is Greater than the Sum of its Parts, Ecodynamics (Berlin, Springer Verlag, 1988).

            5. P. M. Allen, ‘Why the Future is Not What it Was’, Futures, July/August, 1990, pp. 555–570.

            6. Allen, op. cit, Ref. 4.

            7. P. M. Allen & J. McGlade, ‘The Modelling of Human Systems: A Fisheries Example’, European Journal of Operational Research, June 1987, pp. 147–167.

            8. Allen, op. cit., Ref. 4.

            9. Allen, op. cit., Ref. 5.

            10. P. M. Allen & J. M. McGlade, ‘Evolutionary Drive: The Effects of Microscopic Diversity, Error Making and Noise’, Foundations of Physics, 17, 7, 1987, pp. 723–728.

            11. P. M. Allen & J. M. McGlade, ‘Optimality, Adequacy and the Evolution of Complexity’, in: P. L. Christiansen & R. D. Parmentier (Eds), Structure, Coherence and Chaos in Dynamical Systems (Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1989).

            12. M. Eigen & P. Schuster, The Hypercycle (Berlin, Springer, 1979).

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