Santa Fe Institute

Complexity Science for Social Systems

• Instructor(s): TBA
• Institution: UCLA
• Category: Social Science
• Description: Limited to juniors/seniors. Introduction to (1) complexity science as applied to social behavior and (2) agent-based computational modeling. Use of complexity science to bridge old and new conceptions of social science. Newtonian science, neoclassical economics, and old-style approaches to social science all build on assumptions that all basic agents comprising phenomena (atomic particles, atoms, molecules, organisms, people, groups, firms) are homogeneous and go forward in time under equilibrium conditions interspersed with occasional disequilibrium periods.