This book proceeds from a meeting at the Santa Fe Institute where economists and physical and biological scientists came together to discuss a conceptual framework incorporating a more appropriate mathematics with a greatly strengthened capacity to deal simultaneously with multiple variables, nonlinearity, incomplete information and dynamical processes.
Had a workshop at the Santa Fe Institute. The purpose of the workshop was to explore the potential usefulness of a broadly transdisciplinary research program on the dynamics of the global economic system, by bringing together a group of natural scientists who have developed techniques for studying nonlinear dynamical systems and adaptive paths in evolutionary systems.