دانلود کتاب Understanding Change: Models, Methodologies and Metaphors

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Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Tables and Figures......Page 8
Notes on Contributors......Page 10
1 Models, Methodologies, and Metaphors on the Move......Page 16
Part I Chaos and Order in Climate Change......Page 50
2 Climate Change: Complexity, Chaos and Order......Page 52
3 Chaos in Social Systems: Assessment and Relevance......Page 66
4 Economics, Chaos and Environmental Complexity......Page 74
Part II Genetic Variation in Evolution......Page 80
5 The Topology of the Possible......Page 82
6 Neutrality as a Paradigm of Change......Page 100
7 Using Evolutionary Analogies in Social Science: Two Case Studies......Page 104
Part III Economics of Continuity: Path Dependency......Page 112
8 The Grip of History and the Scope for Novelty: Some Results and Open Questions on Path Dependence in Economic Processes......Page 114
9 Analyzing Path Dependence: Lessons from the Social Sciences......Page 144
10 Path Dependence and Historical Contingency in Biology......Page 155
Part IV Institutional Inertia......Page 174
11 The New Institutional Economics: Can It Deliver for Change and Development?......Page 176
12 Institutions, Politics and Culture: A Case for \'Old\' Institutionalism in the Study of Historical Change......Page 192
13 Exporting Metaphors, Concepts and Methods from the Natural Sciences to the Social Sciences and vice versa......Page 202
Part V The Multilinear Modernization of Societies......Page 212
14 Multiple Modernities in the Framework of a Comparative Evolutionary Perspective......Page 214
15 On Modernity and Wellbeing......Page 234
16 Multiplicity in Non-Linear Systems......Page 237
Part VI Constellations of Contingency: Political History......Page 250
17 Historical-Institutionalism in Political Science and the Problem of Change......Page 252
18 Social Science and History: How Predictable Is Political Behavior?......Page 275
19 Reconstructing Change in Historical Systems: Are There Commonalties Between Evolutionary Biology and the Humanities?......Page 285
20 History, Uncertainty, and Disciplinary Difference: Concluding Observations by a Social Scientist......Page 300
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