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Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another

Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another

Philip Ball

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, this title shows how much we can understand of human behaviour when we cease to try to predict and analyse the behaviour of individuals.
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Is there a 'physics of society'? Philip Ball's investigation into human nature ranges from Hobbes and Adam Smith to modern work on traffic flow and market trading, across economics, sociology and psychology. Ball shows how much of human behaviour we can understand when we cease trying to predict and analyse the behaviour of individuals and look to the impact of hundreds, thousands or millions of individual human decisions, in circumstances in which human beings both co-operate and 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.

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Title - Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another

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Author - Philip Ball

ISBN 13 - 9780099457862

Imprint - Arrow Books Ltd

Publisher - Cornerstone

Date Published - 03/02/2005

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Binding Type - Paperback

Dimensions - 129 x 198 x 38mm

Weight - 447 g

Languages - English