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Trust provides a noncontractual, informal, yet highly efficient mechanism to deter malfeasance and enable otherwise risky commercial interactions.
Cesar Hidalgo • Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies
beneficial role of freer markets, more open societies, and better governance in spurring economic growth.
Luis M. A. Bettencourt • Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems
subject to energy conservation and other constraints.
Luis M. A. Bettencourt • Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems
“collective intelligence”—deriving data, knowledge, and insight from large groups connected online.
Joel Gurin • Open Data Now: The Secret to Hot Startups, Smart Investing, Savvy Marketing, and Fast Innovation (Business Books)
While the creation and full use of specialized knowledge often requires protective environments inside organizations, its value depends on broad openness and exchange at the network level. These two processes, taken together, suggest that dynamics of formation and dissolution of organizations are likely necessary for new information to be created a
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Larger cities attract longer-range migration.
Luis M. A. Bettencourt • Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems
centrality of that actor within a network.
Luis M. A. Bettencourt • Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems
growth and change are the result of new productive information, specifically good
Luis M. A. Bettencourt • Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems
the structure of the internet manifests the same network effects and the same general agglomeration patterns as human populations in cities!