Why information grows: the evolution of order, from atoms to economies

Prologue; Introduction; PART I Bits in Atoms; 1 The Secret to Time Travel; 2 The Body of the Meaningless; 3 The Eternal Anomaly; PART II Crystallized Imagination; 4 Out of Our Heads!; 5 Amplifiers; PART III The Quantization of Knowhow; 6 This Time, It's Personal; 7 Links Are Not Free; 8 In Link...

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1. Verfasser: Hidalgo, César A. 1979- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Basic Books [2015]
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Zusammenfassung:Prologue; Introduction; PART I Bits in Atoms; 1 The Secret to Time Travel; 2 The Body of the Meaningless; 3 The Eternal Anomaly; PART II Crystallized Imagination; 4 Out of Our Heads!; 5 Amplifiers; PART III The Quantization of Knowhow; 6 This Time, It's Personal; 7 Links Are Not Free; 8 In Links We Trust; PART IV The Complexity of the Economy; 9 The Evolution of Economic Complexity; 10 The Sixth Substance; 11 The Marriage of Knowledge, Knowhow, and Information; PART V Epilogue; 12 The Evolution of Physical Order, from Atoms to Economies; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index
What is economic growth? And why, historically, has it occurred in only a few places? Previous efforts to answer these questions have focused on institutions, geography, finances, and psychology. But according to MIT's antidisciplinarian César Hidalgo, understanding the nature of economic growth demands transcending the social sciences and including the natural sciences of information, networks, and complexity. To understand the growth of economies, Hidalgo argues, we first need to understand the growth of order.At first glance, the universe seems hostile to order. Thermodynamics dictates that
Beschreibung:XXI, 232 Seiten Illustrationen, Diagramme
ISBN:9780465048991