Critical Mass How One Thing Leads to Another

Name: Critical Mass How One Thing Leads to Another
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ISBN: 9780374530419

ISBN-10: 0374530416

ISBN-13: 9780374530419

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Authors: Philip Ball

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Are there "natural laws" that govern the ways in which humans behave and organize themselves, just as there are physical laws that govern the motions of atoms and planets? Unlikely as it may seem, such laws now seem to be emerging from attempts to bring the tools and concepts of physics into the social sciences. These new discoveries are part of an old tradition. In the seventeenth century the philosopher Thomas Hobbes, dismayed by the impending civil war in England, decided that he would work out what kind of government was needed for a stable society. His solution sparked a new way of thinking about human behavior in looking for the "scientific" rules of society. Adam Smith, Immanuel…

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List price: $24.00
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 5/16/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 8.19" wide x 8.28" long x 1.48" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English