A few extensions to path-dependence and emergence in complex social systems

E:CO Emergence: Complexity and Organization

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 3-16

  Kuosa, Tuomo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

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