Critical Mass - How One Thing Leads to Another (Paperback, New ed.)

Is there a 'physics of society'? Ranging from Hobbes and Adam Smith to modern work on traffic flow and market trading, and across economics, sociology and psychology, Philip Ball shows how much we can understand of human behaviour when we cease to try to predict and analyse the behaviour of individuals and look to the impact of hundreds, thousands or millions of individual human decisions., whether in circumstances in which human beings co-operate or conflict, when their aggregate behaviour is constructive and when it is destructive. By perhaps Britain's leading young science writer, this is a deeply thought-provoking book, causing us to examine our own behaviour, whether in buying the new Harry Potter book, voting for a particular party or responding to the lures of advertisers.

General

Imprint:	Arrow
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	2005
Authors:	Philip Ball
Dimensions:	198 x 130 x 34mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	644
Edition:	New ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-09-945786-2
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Social, group or collective psychology Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Philosophy of science Promotions
LSN:	0-09-945786-5
Barcode:	9780099457862

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