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Title: Complexity by M. Mitchell Waldrop
Review: Several years ago I read the book at the suggestion of a colleague. He was impressed with the ideas. I was not because the author too uncritical about the difficulties of implementing the Santa Fe agenda of modeling complex systems. At the time, I was particular unimpressed with the tale of Brian Arthur's efforts to force new grounds in economics. Subsequently, Arthur's efforts got pubished and inspired an unfortunate development in economics. Arthur presented a strained theory of why bad technologies might become adopted. He was inspired to the study by examining what have since proved false charges of "important" bad choices of technology. Unfortunately, the refutations have not caught up wit his work and mischief abonds. It affected the Microsoft antitrust case.
