英文标题：
《Methods and Concepts in Economic Complexity》
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作者：
Andres Gomez-Lievano
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最新提交年份：
2018
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英文摘要：
  Knowhow in societies accumulates as it gets transmitted from group to group, and from generation to generation. However, we lack of a unified quantitative formalism that takes into account the structured process for how this accumulation occurs, and this has precluded the development of a unified view of human development in the past and in the present. Here, we summarize a paradigm to understand and model this process. The paradigm goes under the general name of the Theory of Economic Complexity (TEC). Based on it, we present a combination of analytical, numerical and empirical results that illustrate how to characterize the process of development, providing measurable quantities that can be used to predict future developments. The emphasis is the quantification of the collective knowhow an economy has accumulated, and what are the directions in which it is likely to expand. As a case study we consider data on trade, which provides consistent data on the technological diversification of 200 countries across more than 50 years. The paradigm represented by TEC should be relevant for anthropologists, sociologists, and economists interested in the role of collective knowhow as the main determinant of the success and welfare of a society.
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中文摘要：
知识在社会中积累，因为它从一个群体传播到另一个群体，并代代相传。然而，我们缺乏一种统一的定量形式主义，这种形式主义考虑到这种积累如何发生的结构化过程，这妨碍了对过去和现在人类发展的统一观点的发展。在这里，我们总结了一个理解和建模这一过程的范例。这种范式被称为经济复杂性理论（TEC）。在此基础上，我们结合分析、数值和实证结果，说明如何描述发展过程，提供可用于预测未来发展的可测量量。重点是量化一个经济体积累的集体知识，以及它可能扩展的方向。作为案例研究，我们考虑了贸易数据，该数据提供了50多年来200个国家技术多样化的一致数据。TEC所代表的范式应该与人类学家、社会学家和经济学家相关，他们对集体知识作为社会成功和福利的主要决定因素的作用感兴趣。
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分类信息：

一级分类：Physics        物理学
二级分类：Physics and Society        物理学与社会
分类描述：Structure, dynamics and collective behavior of societies and groups (human or otherwise). Quantitative analysis of social networks and other complex networks. Physics and engineering of infrastructure and systems of broad societal impact (e.g., energy grids, transportation networks).
社会和团体（人类或其他）的结构、动态和集体行为。社会网络和其他复杂网络的定量分析。具有广泛社会影响的基础设施和系统（如能源网、运输网络）的物理和工程。
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一级分类：Physics        物理学
二级分类：Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems        自适应和自组织系统
分类描述：Adaptation, self-organizing systems, statistical physics, fluctuating systems, stochastic processes, interacting particle systems, machine learning
自适应，自组织系统，统计物理，波动系统，随机过程，相互作用粒子系统，机器学习
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一级分类：Quantitative Finance        数量金融学
二级分类：General Finance        一般财务
分类描述：Development of general quantitative methodologies with applications in finance
通用定量方法的发展及其在金融中的应用
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