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This framework allows us to connect spatial and material aspects of settlements available in the archeological record to social and economic network processes and their products, including a society’s collective capacity to produce private and public goods and its associated division of labor and knowledge.
Luis M. A. Bettencourt • Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems

There is an additional element of importance: these systems usually generate implicit internal models of their environments, models progressively revised and improved as the system accumulates experience. The systems learn.
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
you come in above the Allee Threshold, then the population will grow, because they can keep their mob healthy and protected.
Andrew Chen • The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects
Polis shows the clusters of opinion that exist and highlights statements that bridge them. This approach facilitates both consensus formation and a better understanding of the lines of division.
Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
Postan rejected a monetarist explanation of long-term price movements during the Middle Ages and firmly asserted the primacy of the demographic factor (Hilton 1985).
Peter Turchin, Sergey A. Nefedov • Secular Cycles
collective response systems can play just as important a role in mapping and evolving conflict dynamically as helping to navigate it productively.
Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
As a result, food prices increase, real wages decline, and per capita consumption, especially among the poorer strata, drops. Economic distress leads to lower reproduction and higher mortality rates, resulting in a slower population growth.
Peter Turchin, Sergey A. Nefedov • Secular Cycles
On appelle parfois ce principe « loi de Price », en hommage à Derek J. de Solla Price13, le chercheur qui a découvert son application scientifique en 1963.