Laws of Chaos
By (Author) Emmanuel Farjoun
By (author) Moshe Machover
Verso Books
Verso Books
28th April 2020
New edition
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Economic systems and structures
330.015195
Paperback
272
Width 140mm, Height 210mm, Spine 15mm
346g
A defining work of Econophysics, republished for the first time since 1983,Laws of Chaosis an attempt to construct a non-deterministic theoretical framework for the foundations of political economy. It relies on probabilistic and statistical methods of the kind used in the modern foundations of several other sciences, introducing scientific modelling into economics for the first time.
Mosh Machover is a mathematician, philosopher, and socialist activist, noted for his writings against Zionism. Emmanuel Farjoun teaches Mathematics at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.