Critical Mass

Critical Mass

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Philip Ball
Philip Ball
2005 • 658 pages

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Is there a 'physics of society'? Ranging from Hobbes and Adam Smith to modern work on traffic flow and market trading, and across economics, sociology and psychology, Philip Ball shows how much we can understand of human behaviour when we cease to try to

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