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Złożoność organiczna jako nowe ujęcie złożoności systemów ekonomicznych
Organic Complexity as a New Approach to the Complexity of Economic Systems

Author(s): Paweł Wołoszyn
Subject(s): Economy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego w Krakowie
Keywords: complex systems; agent-based model; symmetry; self-similarity

Summary/Abstract: Economic and social systems belong to a wide class of complex systems, the subject of research in many areas of science. There are many approaches to the complexity of such systems, which differ in how they define and explain the sources of complex behaviour. As complexity is widespread in nature, it seems legitimate to seek a universal pattern repeated in all kinds of complex systems. This article presents a new concept of organic complexity, understood as a set of three attributes: asymmetry, multiplicity and interactivity of a system’s components. Systems with these characteristics will have the ability to develop complex structures or behaviours. The organic complexity approach can be useful in building models of complex economic and social systems.

  • Issue Year: 928/2014
  • Issue No: 04
  • Page Range: 143-157
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish