Of Ants and Men The Unexpected Side Effects of Complexity in Society /

• Main Author: Green, David G. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Copernicus, 2014.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Complexity, Computational.; Complexity.; Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity.

Why do things go wrong? Why, despite all the planning and care in the world, do things go from bad to worse? This book argues that it is because we are like the ants. Just as ants create an anthill without being aware of it, unintended side effects of human activity create all manner of social trend...

Table of Contents:

• From Bad to Worse
• Of Ants and Men
• A Tangled Web
• The Eye of the Beholder
• The Animal Within
• More things in heaven and earth
• The Sting in the Tail
• Divide and Rule
• One thing leads to another
• The Snowball Effect
• A Deadly Cascade
• Collateral damage
• The Straw that Broke the Camel's Back
• The Herd Instinct
• The Subatomic Family
• The Global Village
• The Root of All Evil
• Fouling the Nest
• Shaping the Future.