Insights from the cognitive sciences into the structure and functioning of the brain as an adaptive system can be deployed in the understanding of complex systems in general – and of the specific social complexes of market and science in particular. Science and market, as institutional...

Legislatures in modern democratic nation states are social arrangements in which individuals selected as representatives interact with each other and with professional lobbyists according to quite specific transactional modes, producing continually updated bodies of legislation. It is widely...