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Schieffer and Lessem introduce a groundbreaking development framework and process to address the most burning issues that humanity faces. While conventional top-down, outside-in development has reached a cul-de-sac, a new, integral form of development is emerging around the world. Integral Development uniquely articulates this emergent approach, and invites us to fully participate in this process. Integral Development combines four mutually reinforcing perspectives: nature and community; culture and spirituality; science, systems and technology; and enterprise and economics. Conventional

Economic development -- Social aspects. --- Political development -- Social aspects. --- Social systems. --- Economic development --- Political development --- Social systems --- Business & Economics --- Economic Theory --- Social aspects --- Social aspects. --- Development, Political --- Sociology --- System theory --- Political science --- E-books

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This book provides the first clear, comprehensive, and accessible account of complex adaptive social systems, by two of the field's leading authorities. Such systems--whether political parties, stock markets, or ant colonies--present some of the most intriguing theoretical and practical challenges confronting the social sciences. Engagingly written, and balancing technical detail with intuitive explanations, Complex Adaptive Systems focuses on the key tools and ideas that have emerged in the field since the mid-1990s, as well as the techniques needed to investigate such systems. It provides a detailed introduction to concepts such as emergence, self-organized criticality, automata, networks, diversity, adaptation, and feedback. It also demonstrates how complex adaptive systems can be explored using methods ranging from mathematics to computational models of adaptive agents. John Miller and Scott Page show how to combine ideas from economics, political science, biology, physics, and computer science to illuminate topics in organization, adaptation, decentralization, and robustness. They also demonstrate how the usual extremes used in modeling can be fruitfully transcended.

Social systems --- Social sciences --- Mathematical models --- AA / International- internationaal --- 203 --- -Social sciences --- -300.1513 --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Sociology --- System theory --- Sociografie. Algemene beschrijving van de gemeenschappen (Sociologie). --- Sociale relaties. --- Computermodellen. --- Mathematical models. --- 300.1513 --- Sociografie. Algemene beschrijving van de gemeenschappen (Sociologie) --- Social systems - Mathematical models --- Social sciences - Mathematical models

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Social sciences (general) --- Sociology --- social sciences --- sociology --- complexity [artistic concept] --- complexiteit --- sociologie --- sociale wetenschappen --- Economics --- Social sciences --- Social systems --- 330.3 --- AA / International- internationaal --- System theory --- Economics, Mathematical --- Mathematical models --- Methode in staathuishoudkunde. Statische, dynamische economie. Modellen. Experimental economics

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Illustrates the potential of an organizational theory of society to illuminate current areas of sociological interest. The text draws on different strands of organization theory to show how a synthesis with social theory clarifies the nature and effects of social and organizational interactions.

Sociology of organization --- Systèmes sociaux --- 303.682 --- 316.354 --- 316.47 --- 316.3 --- #SBIB:316.334.2A500 --- #SBIB:35H300 --- 316.354 Organisatiesociologie --- Organisatiesociologie --- 303.682 Sociometrie. Sociale netwerken --- Sociometrie. Sociale netwerken --- 316.3 Sociale structuur --(sociologie) --- Sociale structuur --(sociologie) --- 316.47 Sociale relaties --(sociologie) --- Sociale relaties --(sociologie) --- Organisatiesociologie: algemeen --- Organisatieleer: algemene werken --- Organizational behavior --- E-books --- Organization. --- Social structure. --- Social systems. --- Sociology --- System theory --- Organization, Social --- Social organization --- Anthropology --- Social institutions --- Organisation --- Management --- Organization --- Social structure --- Social systems --- Structure sociale --- Systèmes sociaux --- Behavior in organizations --- Psychology, Industrial --- Social psychology

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The Economics of Property-Casualty Insurance presents new research and findings on key aspects of the economics of the property-casualty insurance industry. The volume explores the industrial organization, regulation, financing, and taxation of this business. The first paper, on external financing and insurance cycles, contains a wealth of information on trends and patterns in the industry's financial structure. The last essay, which compares performance of stock and mutual insurance companies, takes a fresh look at the way a company's organizational structure affects its responses to different economic situations. Two papers focus on rate regulation in the auto insurance industry, and provide broad overviews of the structure and economics of the insurance industry as a whole. Also addressed are the system of regulating insurance companies in the United States, who insures the insurers, and the effects of tax law changes in the 1980's on the prices of insurance policies.

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