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Selected Bibliography on Complexity

Arthur, W. Brian. “Inductive Reasoning and Bounded Rationality.” AEA Papers and Proceedings. Vol. 84, No. 2 (May 1994).

Arthur, W. Brian. “Positive Feedbacks in the Economy.” Scientific American. February 1990.

Axelrod, Robert. The Evolution of Cooperation. Basic Books, 1984.

Axtell, Robert L. “Zipf Distribution of US Firm Sizes.” Science. 293/5536 (2001).

Bak, Per. How Nature Works: The Science of Self-Organized Criticality. Copernicus, 1996.

Bak, Per and Kan Chen. "Self-Organized Criticality." Scientific American. January 1991.

Barabasi, Albert Laszlo. Linked: How Everything is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life. Penguin Books, 2003.

Bertalanffy, Ludwig. General Systems Theory. Revised Edition. George Braziller, Inc., 1968.

Beyerchen, Alan. "Clausewitz, Nonlinearity, and the Unpredictability of War." International Security. Vol. 17, No. 3 (Winter 1992/93).

Buchanan, Mark. Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Theory of Networks. W.W. Norton and Co., 2002.

Buchanan, Mark. Ubiquity: The Science of History … or Why the World is Simpler than We Think. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2000.

Casti, John L. Complexification: Explaining a Paradoxical World Through the Science of Surprise. Harper Collins, 1994.

Cederman, Lars-Erik. Emergent Actors in World Politics: How States and Nations Develop and Dissolve. Princeton University Press, 1997.

Cederman, Lars-Erik. “Modeling the Size of Wars: From Billiard Balls to Sandpiles.” APSR. Vol. 97, No. 1 (March 2003).

Dawkins, Richard. The Selfish Gene. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Easton, David. A Framework for Political Analysis. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1965.

Eidelson, Roy J. “Complex Adaptive Systems in the Behavioral and Social Sciences.” Review of General Psychology. Vol. 1 (1997).

Eldredge, Niles and Stephen Jay Gould. “Punctuated Equilibria: An Alternative to Phyletic Gradualism.” In T. J. M. Schopf, ed. Models in Paleobiology. Freeman, 1972.

Freeman, Walter J. "The Physiology of Perception." Scientific American. Feb. 1991.

Gaddis, John Lewis. “International Relations Theory and the End of the Cold War.” International Security. Vol. 17, No. 3 (Winter 1992/93).

Gallagher, Richard and Tim Appenzeller. “Beyond Reductionism.” Science. Vol. 284 (April 2, 1999).

Gell-Mann, Murray. The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex. W. H. Freeman and Co., 1994.

Gladwell, Malcolm. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. Back Bay Books, 2002.

Gleick, James. Chaos: Making a New Science. Penguin Books, 1987.

Goerner, Sally J. Chaos and the Evolving Ecological Universe. Gordon and Breach, 1994.

Goldberger, Ary L., David R. Rigney, and Bruce J. West. "Chaos and Fractals in Human Physiology." Scientific American. February 1990.

Goodwin, Brian. How the Leopard Changed Its Spots: The Evolution of Complexity. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994.

Gould, Stephen Jay. Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time. Harvard University Press, 1987.

Holland, John H. Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity. Addison-Wesley, 1995.

Holland, John H. "Complex Adaptive Systems." Daedalus. Vol. 121, No. 1 (Winter 1992).

Jervis, Robert. System Effects: Complexity in Political and Social Life. Princeton University Press, 1997.

Jervis, Robert. “Complexity and the Analysis of Political and Social Life.” Political Science Quarterly. Vol. 112, No. 4 (1997-98).

Jervis, Robert. “The Future of World Politics: Will it Resemble the Past?” International Security. Vol. 16, No. 3 (Winter 1991/92).

Kauffman, Stuart A. At Home in the Universe: The Search for Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity. Oxford University Press, 1995.

Kauffman, Stuart A. Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution. Oxford University Press, 1993.

Kauffman, Stuart A. "Antichaos and Adaptation." Scientific American. August 1991.

Kuhn, Thomas S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Second Edition. University of Chicago Press, 1970.

Lewin, Roger. Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos. MacMillian, 1992.

Liljeros, Fredrik et al. “The Web of Human Sexual Contacts.” Nature. Vol. 411 (June 21, 2001). http://polymer.bu.edu/~amaral/Sex_partners/Content_sex.html.

Lorenz, Edward N. The Essence of Chaos. University of Washington Press, 1993.

Malmgren, Bjorn A., W. A. Berggren, and G. P. Lohmann. “Species Formation through Punctuated Gradualism in Planktonic Foraminifera.” Science. Vol. 225 (July 20, 1984).

Mann, Steven R. "Chaos, Criticality, and Strategic Thought." In Thomas C.Gill, ed. Essays on Strategy, Volume IX. National Defense University Press, 1993.

Marsili, Matteo and Yi-Cheng Zhang. “Interacting Individuals Leading to Zipf's Law." Physical Review Letters. 80/12 (1998).

Redner, Sidney. “How Popular is Your Paper? An Empirical Study of the Citation Distribution.” European Physics Journal. B4 (1998). http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/9804163.

Rhodes, C. J., H. J. Jensen, and R. M. Anderson. “On the Critical Behavior of SimpleEpidemics.” Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences. Vol. 264 (1997). www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/index/C1PYPHNVEW7Q8MCG.pdf.

Ruthen, Russell. "Adapting to Complexity." Scientific American. January 1993.

Snyder, Jack and Robert Jervis, eds. Coping with Complexity in the International System. Westview Press, 1993.

Sornette, Didier. Why Stock Markets Crash: Critical Events in Complex Financial Systems. Princeton University Press, 2002.

Steinbruner, John D. The Cybernetic Theory of Decision: New Dimensions of Political Analysis. Princeton University Press, 1974.

Waldrup, M. Mitchell. Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos. Simon and Schuster, 1992.

Watts, Duncan J. Small Worlds: The Dynamics of Networks between Order and Randomness. Princeton University Press, 1999.

Willinger, Walter et al. “More ‘Normal’ than Normal: Scaling Distribution and Complex Systems.” Proceedings of 2004 Simulations Conference. www.informs-sim.org/wsc04papers/016.pdf.

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