In this book I try to show how models of self-organization can be applied to many economic phenomena - how the principle of "order from instability," which explains the growth of hurricanes and embryos, can also explain the formation of cities and business cycles; how the principle of "order from random growth" can explain the strangely simple rules that describe the sizes of earth quakes, meteorites, and metropolitan areas. I believe that the ideas of self-organization theory can add substantially to our understanding of the economy; whatever their ultimate usefulness, these ideas are very exciting, and playing around with them is tremendous fun.


Preface - The Self-Organizing Economy (1996)

Paul Krugman Quotes

In this book I try to show how models of self-organization can be applied to many economic phenomena - how the principle of order from instability,...

In this book I try to show how models of self-organization can be applied to many economic phenomena - how the principle of order from instability,...

In this book I try to show how models of self-organization can be applied to many economic phenomena - how the principle of order from instability,...

In this book I try to show how models of self-organization can be applied to many economic phenomena - how the principle of order from instability,...