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Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
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Alex Komoroske • Coordination Headwind - How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds

Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
W. Brian Arthur, Eric D. Beinhocker,
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cooperation at scale. The state, business, and civil society all have roles to play in creating the
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
The economy is thus comprised of evolving networks of interacting agents, institutions, and technologies—networks of networks. The macro- level patterns of the economy—growth, innovation, business cycles, market booms and busts, inequality, and carbon emissions—then emerge from these dynamic micro- and meso-level interactions. From the complexity e
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Scale: The Universal Laws of Life, Growth, and Death in Organisms, Cities, and Companies
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Both are dynamic systems in which the selfish actions of countless individuals—whether they be cells or investors—lead to unpredictable consequences at the system level. In turn, these collective actions and consequences feed back to influence individual actions in endless cycles of adaptation and evolution.