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The Social Atom

Why The Rich Get Richer, Cheats Get Caught, And Your Neighbour Usually Looks Like You

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By a major science writer, The Social Atom explains - and even predicts - human behaviour and decision-making through the lens of physics. How do trends in fashions begin? Why do traffic jams appear on unobstructed road? Why do financial markets behave in a way that consistently confounds economists? Why do we end up living in racially segregated neighbourhoods? Why do friends and neighbours turn against one another in times of war? scientific enquiry, groups of individuals behave in more predictable ways. Using the tools of physics, the author discovers that the same patterns of behaviour crop up over and over again, even when the outcome is something that no particular individual would have desired.

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The Social Atom, Mark Buchanan

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Rok wydania
2007
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Tytuł
The Social Atom
Podtytuł
Why The Rich Get Richer, Cheats Get Caught, And Your Neighbour Usually Looks Like You
Język
angielski
Rok wydania
2007
Oprawa
twarda
Liczba stron
256
ISBN10
0462099148
ISBN13
9780462099149
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Opis
By a major science writer, The Social Atom explains - and even predicts - human behaviour and decision-making through the lens of physics. How do trends in fashions begin? Why do traffic jams appear on unobstructed road? Why do financial markets behave in a way that consistently confounds economists? Why do we end up living in racially segregated neighbourhoods? Why do friends and neighbours turn against one another in times of war? scientific enquiry, groups of individuals behave in more predictable ways. Using the tools of physics, the author discovers that the same patterns of behaviour crop up over and over again, even when the outcome is something that no particular individual would have desired.