Complexity and Sustainable Development
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This article examines some aspects of socioeconomic development in light of complexity theory. It examines some nonlinear interactions between economic systems, institutions, population growth, knowledge creation and utilization, and cultural values. Multiple possibilities of behavioral patterns resulting from these nonlinear interactions are emphasized. It is argued that when “sustainability” is referred to some concrete long-term “goals” in complicated dynamic systems, it is only under limited circumstances that man might be able to achieve them.
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