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A crude look at the whole : the science of complex systems in business, life, and society

Miller, John H. (John Howard), 1959- author

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\"Imagine trying to understand a stained glass window by breaking it into pieces and examining it one shard at a time. While you could probably learn a lot about each piece, you would have no idea about what the entire picture looks like. This is reductionism--the idea that to understand the world we only need to study its pieces--and it is how most social scientists approach their work. In [this book], social scientist and economist John H. Miller shows why we need to start looking at whole pictures. For one thing, whether we are talking about stock markets, computer networks, or biological organisms, individual parts only make sense when we remember that they are part of larger wholes. And perhaps more importantly, those wholes can take on behaviors that are strikingly different from that of their pieces\"--Amazon.com.

• Publisher: Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group,
• Subject: System analysis. / System design. / Information modeling. / Coupled problems (Complex systems)
• ISBN: 9780465055692, 0465055699

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
QA402.M495 2015	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE