دانلود کتاب In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action

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Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Foreword
1. The Beginning: In Defense of Chaos and Complexity
The Origins of Chaos
To Solve Unsolved Mysteries
What is Chaos Anyhow?
Where is the Control?
The Serenity of Order
Self-Organizing Systems/Complex Adaptive Systems
Evolution vs. Entropy
Death of Determinism and Positivism
Chaology and Economics
Predictability: The Future Leaves No Footprints
2. System Failure: The Boomerang Effect
The System Failure Phenomenon
Reconfiguring Dynamics
The Political Systems of Command and Control
Boomerang Effect Mechanics
Political Remedies and Global Warming
Losing Control of the Steering Wheel
Government Conspiracies
Planned Chaos
Central Planning and Linear Modeling
Forced Assimilation
Mechanics of Failure
Foreign Boomeranging
Environmental Blowback
3. Infinity, Equality and Imperfection
The EPR Paradox: Uncertainty and Indeterminism
Flaw Linear Regression
Uncaused Phenomena and Political Causality
The Impossibility of Exact Results
Imperfections and Inequality
The Illusion of Reform
Spaghetti Coding/Loop
4. Strange Attractors and Subjective Value
A Strange Attractor in Economics
Subjective Value
Information Theory and Accurate Information
5. Social Chaology and Weak Structures
Transgressions of Emperor Nero
Weak Structures–Bad Chaos
Edge-of-Chaos Disequilibrium
The Devil’s Footpath
The Planned Chaos of Mao Tse–tung
An Institution of Legalized Violence
The Licensing Effect
The Complexity of Disorder and Violence
Foxes Guarding the Henhouse
6. Social Chaology and Strong Structures
Absolute-based Architecture
Emergence and Reductionism
The Entanglement of Distant Parts
The Canopy of Altruism
Termite Architecture
The Synergic Mode
Political Reductionism
Volitional Structures
Monolithic Church and State
Economic Engines at the Edge of Chaos
Three Strong Structures
Business
Family
Social
7. Social Upheavals and the Legalization of Violence
The Rule of Law, the Government of Men
Violence Breeds Violence
The Attraction of Consent
Coercing the Conscience
Pathogenic Systems
“Live–and–Let–Live” Systems
Empowerment and the Dangers of Democracy
Dividing and Destroying the Community
The Warm Glow of Charity
Truth Distortion of Dystopia
My Way or the Highway–A Story of Planned Chaos
Competing Governments–The Collective Violence of War
Political Flatliners
Chaos Dynamics Versus Atrophy
8. Decentralization and Simplicity
The Swiss Confederation
The War Factor
War and Decentralization
Single Point of Failure
The Soviet Colossus
Spontaneous Decentralization
Decentralized Decision Making
The Decentralization of City-States
They Who Would Decide
Invisible Systems and Patterns
Beyond the Reach of the Authorities
9. Self-Organizing Systems
History of Self-Organizing Systems
The Living Organism of Economics
Stateless and Self-Organizing Societies
Pirate Societies and Autonomous Zones
Modern Stateless Societies and Somalia
Agriculture, City-States and the Roman Republic
The Over-Organizing Gene
Fleeing to Virgin Lands–Westward Ho
Self-Healing and Biological Uniqueness
Market Failure and Succeed by Failure
Government Failure
Fractalized Information
10. Swarm Intelligence and Dynamics
Complexity with No Central Processor
Swarming Birds of Precision
Errors, Choice, and Randomness
Self-Organization vs. Compulsion
Big Things Fail in a Big Way
Roads Gone Wild
11. Control, Order, and Chaos
Immeasurable Universe
Spartans: Becoming a Slave to Slaves
Gangs: Controlling the Uncontrollable
The Fear of Losing Control
A Manicured World
The Crosswalk Principle
Order Without Law
12. Paradoxes and Inconsistencies
Connections to Paradoxes
Diversity vs. Unity Paradox
Paradox Theory
Ruler’s Paradox
The Political Anarchist Paradox
The Paradox of Power
The Autopoietic Paradox
Short-Term, Long-Term Inconsistencies
Paradoxes in the Economics Arena
Other Ironies, Curiosities and Paradoxes
Foreign Aid Conundrum
Preservation Laws That Fail to Preserve
Upside-Down Behavior
13. Evolution and Order Without Design
Round Soap Bubbles
Order Without Design
Survival of the Most Adaptable
Mindless Intelligence and Entropy
Evolution not Revolution
14. Chaology and Market-Based Economics
Division of Knowledge
Open Source: A Network of Dreams
Linux: The Accidental Revolutionary
The Austrian School of Economics
The Strong Eat the Weak: Monopolies
Game Theory
The Cooperation of Trade
Economic Systems: Marxism
National Socialism and Fascism
The Fascism of Mussolini
Keynesianism
Mercantilism
Index