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SFI Working Paper Abstract

1998

Title:

Uncertainty, Difficulty, and Complexity

Author(s):

Scott E. Page

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Paper #:

98-08-076

Abstract:

In this paper, I formally define uncertainty, difficulty, and complexity both as measures of problems and environments and as analytic paradigms and discuss the importance of the difficulty and uncertainty paradigms in the study of institutions.