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There must also be some vulnerability of the state in the form of internal divisions and economic or political reverses. Otherwise, popular discontent is unvoiced, and popular opposition is simply suppressed.

Rather, after a simulation is run a thousand or a million times, such models show policy makers the range of possible futures and their relative probabilities if policies remain unchanged. Then, by altering policies in the model and running them another million times, we might begin to understand paths to better futures.

some form of complexity theory is required if we are to understand many of the intimate, and patently uncertain, interactions found in modern society.

And they are instantiated as a distributed processing system on human beings. They don’t particularly care about human beings. Their motives are inscrutable, to the extent that they have any, except that they’d like to get bigger. They’ve run on people. They’re implemented on people. But they are not people. They are not persons in any meaningful

These are all highly contestable statements.

nossa espécie tem problemas com a violência.

The economy is thus comprised of evolving networks of interacting agents, institutions, and technologies—networks of networks. The macro- level patterns of the economy—growth, innovation, business cycles, market booms and busts, inequality, and carbon emissions—then emerge from these dynamic micro- and meso-level interactions. From the complexity

But it can also go the other way. What economics has missed is that adding an incentive—a fine or a bonus—may be subtracting something else, the individual’s sense of responsibility, or obligation, or intrinsic pleasure.