JERVIS Robert

System effects: complexity in political and social life - Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ Press, 1999 - 309p.

Suggests that the foundations of many social science theories, particularly in political science, are faulty. Based on insights from complexity theory the author notes that people live in an interconnected world, where unintended consequences of actions are both unavoidable and unpredictable.

0691005303 (pbk.): 16.95 US


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