When bad economics is good politics / Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Hilton L. Root -- Order, disorder, and economic change: Latin America versus North America / Douglass C. North, William Summerhill, and Barry R. Weingast -- Political institutions, political survival, and policy success / Bruce...

Do the complex dynamics of international relations resemble the longterm evolution observed in living systems? This chapter will try to identify the mechanisms associated with those dynamics, and to determine if the science of complex adaptive systems can aid in the understanding of...

Hayek thought that the origins of composite social structures, including the economy is among the great unanswered questions of social science. These structures are the result of the beliefs and actions of the multitude and do not follow a single purposeful design. Their non-designed structures,...

The first global financial sector crash eludes conventional assessments of sector risk. Singling out the usual culprits – the housing bubble, executive pay, regulators, rating agencies, risk models, and global imbalances – fails to explain either the unpredictability or the rapidity of the...