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Genomic model: history is what DNA (and languages, and artifacts) show us. David Reich’s Who We Are and How We Got Here is the canonical popular summary of this school of thought, along with Cavalli-Sforza’s older book on the History and Geography of Human Genes.
Balaji Srinivasan • The Network State: How To Start a New Country
Eugene Wei • Why Information Grows — Remains of the Day
These data make a strong case that, as human social networks grow, they necessarily lead to systems that require fewer resources per person, and produce more per person. In other words, the benefits of scale for human groups have always been there.
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
the steady state of out-of-equilibrium systems minimizes the production of entropy.6
Cesar Hidalgo • Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies
Bell-Masterson e Stangler (2015) afirmam que os ecossistemas podem ser medidos pela densidade de empreendedores que abrigam, pela conectividade que permitem, por sua diversidade econômica e fluidez/fluxo de pessoas e empresas.