Survival under uncertainty : an introduction to probability models of social structure and evolution / Dimitri Volchenkov.
This book introduces and studies a number of stochastic models of subsistence, communication, social evolution and political transition that will allow the reader to grasp the role of uncertainty as a fundamental property of our irreversible world. At the same time, it aims to bring about a more int...
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2016.
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| Series: | Understanding complex systems.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Subsistence in Uncertainty
- Time and Institutions
- Inequality and the Laws of supply and demand
- Decision making under uncertainty
- Capitalization of uncertainty: stochastic theory of advantage
- Doubly stochastic branching process as a model of natural selection
- Human history as a stochastic process
- The stochastic model of social conformity and political instability
- Random walks over political regimes : History seems to never end
- Urbanization failure and a fission chain reaction of states.