Scale
The Universal Laws of Life, Growth, and Death in Organisms, Cities, and Companies
by Geoffrey West
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Recommended by 13 sources and appears in Economics, Books Recommended by Investors, and Most Recommended Books.
The former head of the Sante Fe Institute, visionary physicist Geoffrey West is a pioneer in the field of complexity science, the science of emergent systems and networks. The term ?complexity? can be misleading, however, because what makes West?s discoveries so beautiful is that he has found an underlying simplicity that unites the seemingly compl...
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