The past few years have seen an extraordinary interest in complexsystems. Essential to the understanding of results and predictions developed by new methodologies in this arena is a basic understanding of what determinism and random process means for political/economic/social sciences from the...

This paper embeds a wide-angled overview of the process of change, spanning the evolution of the species to the modern human-centered period. The model is based on the central proposition that change ensues from the supply-demand interaction between disorder and order, chaos and complexity....

Chapter 1. Complexity Theory and Broadened Rationality on Man and Society -- Chapter 2. Influential Linearized Theories on Man and Society -- Chapter 3. Bifurcations, Chaos, and Unpredictability -- Chapter 4. Self-Organization, Catastrophes, and Structural Changes -- Chapter 5 Uncertainties with...