TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ball,Philip
TI  - Critical mass: how one thing leads to another 
SN  - 0099457865 (pbk.)
AV  - HM 585 B187cr 2004
PY  - 2004///
CY  - London
PB  - Arrow
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Sociología
KW  - Human behavior
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Physics
KW  - Social aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 615-633) and index; Introduction : political arithmetick -- Raising Leviathan : the brutish world of Thomas Hobbes -- Lesser forces : the mechanical philosophy of matter -- The law of large numbers : regularities from randomness -- The grand ah-whoom : why some things happen all at once -- On growth and form : the emergence of shape and organization -- The march of reason : chance and necessity in collective motion -- On the road : the inexorable dynamics of traffic -- Rhythms of the marketplace : the shaky hidden hand of economics -- Agents of fortune : why interaction matters to the economy -- Uncommon proportions : critical states and the power of the straight line -- The work of many hands : the growth of firms -- Join the club : alliances in business and politics -- Multitudes in the valley of decision : collective influence and social change -- The colonization of culture : globalization, diversity, and synthetic societies -- Small worlds : networks that bring us together -- Weaving the web : the shape of cyberspace -- Order in Eden : learning to cooperate -- Pavlov's victory : is reciprocity good for us? -- Toward Utopia? : heaven, hell, and social planning -- Epilogue: Curtain call
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