A look into the nature of complex systems and beyond "Stonehenge" economics: Coping with complexity or ignoring it in applied economics?

Agricultural Economics

Volumn 37, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 219-235

  Noell, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attractors; Complexity; Dynamic equilibria; Economic systems; Food supply networks; Fractal structures; Open systems; Policy analysis; Power law distributions; SDIDTS; Self organization; Self organized criticality; Systems theory

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXITY; ECONOMIC SYSTEM; FOOD SUPPLY; POLICY ANALYSIS; POWER LAW; SELF ORGANIZATION; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 36849009155     PISSN: 01695150     EISSN: 15740862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-0862.2007.00268.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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