The Complexity of Self-Organizing East Asian Networks

David F. Batten

Chapter 13 in Asia-Pacific Transitions, 2001, pp 171-188 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Predicting the future course of social and economic evolution is no simple task. Over fifty years ago, the noted economist, Joseph Schumpeter, delivered a cautionary message concerning the predictability of socioeconomic development: The process of social life is a function of so many variables, many of which are not amenable to anything like measurement, that even mere diagnosis of a given state of things becomes a doubtful matter quite apart from the formidable sources of error that open up as soon as we attempt prognosis.

Keywords: Cultural ChangeD; Path Dependence; Transition Figure; Nature Work; Agent Learn (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230628458_13

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