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Social snowflakes
Inspired by yesterday's snowflake photograph, Steve Horowitz pens an excellent post on spontaneous orders in the natural and social worlds. At our best social scientists inspire an "aesthetic appreciation of, and deep desire to understand, the awesome beauty and complexity of the undesigned order of 'social snowflakes.'" Do read the whole thing.
Posted by Alex Tabarrok on December 26, 2005 at 07:10 AM in Education | Permalink
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Lynne Kiesling Steve Horwitz's musings on complexity and snowflakes is a great read that raises an important question: why are so many of us willing to accept and appreciate emergent order processes when they occur in non-human nature? Why do... [Read More]
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