Complexity and Co-Evolution：Continuity and Change in Socio-Economic Systems
Edited by
Elizabeth Garnsey
Reader in Innovation Studies and Fellow, Clare Hall,University of Cambridge, UK
and
James McGlade
Senior Research Scientist,Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona,Spain and Research Associate, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, UK
Edward Elgar
Cheltenham, UK • Northampton, MA, USA
Elizabeth Garnsey and James McGlade 2006
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Contents
List of contributors vi
Preface viii
1 The nature of complexity 1
James McGlade and Elizabeth Garnsey
2 Evolution, diversity and organization 22
Peter Allen, Mark Strathern and James Baldwin
3 Cities: continuity, transformation and emergence 61
Michael Batty, Joana Barros and Sinésio Alves Júnior
4 Ecohistorical regimes and la longue durée: an approach
to mapping long-term societal change 77
James McGlade
5 Restless capitalism: a complexity perspective on modern
capitalist economies 115
Ronnie Ramlogan and J. Stanley Metcalfe
6 Industrial resilience and decline: a co-evolutionary framework 147
James McGlade, Robert Murray, James Baldwin,
Keith Ridgway and Belinda Winder
7 Diversity and uniformity in the evolution of early
information and communication technologies 177
Elizabeth Garnsey, Paul Heffernan and Simon Ford
Afterword 204
Simon Ford, Elizabeth Garnsey and Michael Lyons
Index 213