Firm Scaling and Political Systems

The last several years have yielded new insights on non-linear regularities in the scaling of publicly traded for-profit firms. There is still much we do not know about how industrial policy, political economy, and regulatory environment impacts growth and mortality among publicly traded firms. In this 60-minute virtual ACtioN meeting SFI Professors Geoffrey West and Chris Kempes, along with SFI Applied Complexity Fellow Veronica Cappelli will unpack a new dataset comparing the scaling of publicly traded firms in the US and China and explore its implications for the underlying universal dynamics of firm behavior.