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Books and Papers by Workshop Speakers

Sander Bais

Books:

- The Equations: Icons of Knowledge
- In Praise of Science: Curiosity, Understanding, and Progress
- Very Special Relativity: An Illustrated Guide

Publications:

-List of publications can be found here


Kenneth Arrow

Books:

- The Arrow Impossibility Theorem (Kenneth J. Arrow Lecture Series)
- Creating a Learning Society: A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress (Kenneth J. Arrow Lecture Series) Hardcover
- Speculation, Trading, and Bubbles (Kenneth J. Arrow Lecture Series)
- Moral Hazard in Health Insurance (Kenneth J. Arrow Lecture Series)
- Social Choice and Individual Values: Third Edition by Kenneth J. Arrow and Eric S. Maskin
- The Limits of Organization

Publications:

-List of major publications can be found here


W. Brian Arthur

Books:

- The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves
- Complexity and the Economy

Articles and Papers:

- Complexity Economics: A Different Framework for Economic Thought - W. Brian Arthur
- The Best Business Journalism of 2013 - The New Yorker
- List of publications can be found here


Eric Beinhocker

Book:

- The Origin of Wealth: The Radical Remaking of Economics and What it Means for Business and Society


Tanmoy Bhattacharya

Publications:

- List of publications can be found here


Sam Bowles

Books:

-A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution by Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis
- The New Economics of Inequality and Redistribution

Publications:

- List of publications can be found here


J. Doyne Farmer

Books:

Beyond Equilibrium and Efficiency (Santa Fe Institute Studies on the Sciences of Complexity)

Brownian Agents and Active Particles: Collective Dynamics in the Natural and Social Sciences

Stephanie Forrest

Books:

Emergent Computation Perspectives on Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems

John Geanakoplos

Books:

Beyond Equilibrium and Efficiency (Santa Fe Institute Studies on the Sciences of Complexity)

Nick Hanauer

Books:

The Gardens of Democracy: A New American Story of Citizenship, the Economy, and the Role of Government The True Patriot

Alan Kirman

Books:

Complex Economics: Individual and Collective Rationality
Frontiers of Game Theory

Cris Moore

Books:

The Nature of Computation

Publications: All publications can be found here


Jerry Sabloff

ARCHAEOLOGY MATTERS: ACTION ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE MODERN WORLD
The Ancient City: New Perspectives on Urbanism in the Old and New Worlds
The Cities of Ancient Mexico: Reconstructing a Lost World
The New Archaeology and the Ancient Maya
Ancient Maya City of Sayil: The Mapping of a Puuc Region Center

Charles Stevens

Books: Synapses The Six Core Theories of Modern Physics

Selected Publications:

Dobrunz, L. and Stevens, C.F. (1999). Response of Hippocampal Synapses to Natural Stimulation Patterns. Neuron 22: 157-166.

Murthy, V.N. and Stevens, C.F. (1999) Reversal of Synaptic Vesicle Docking at Central Synapses. Nature Neuroscience 2: 503-507.

Wesseling, J. and Stevens, C.F. (1999) Identification of a Novel Process Limiting the Rate of Synaptic Vesicle Cycling at Hippocampal Synapses. Neuron 24: 1017-1028.

McAllister, A.K. and Stevens, C.F. (2000) Nonsaturation of AMPA and NMDA receptors at hippocampal synapses. PNAS 97: 6173-6178.

Geoffrey West

Books: Scaling in Biology


Additional Readings

The following is a collection of papers regarded as "classic" literature in Complex Systems Science. This list has been growing over the past few years and was formalized by Dan Rockmore for the 2010 Complex Systems Summer School.

For more readings, please explore the wiki content of previous summer schools.

Here is a Dropbox folder with PDFs of all the papers below.

Science and complexity by Warren Weaver

Rosenblueth, A., and N. Wiener. 1945. The Role of Models in Science. Philosophy of Science 12 (4):316-321.

Shannon, C.E. 1948. A Mathematical Theory of Communication. Bell System Technical Journal 27:379-423 623-656.

Turing, A.M. 1952. The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences 237 (641):37-72.

Minksy, M. 1961. Steps Toward Artificial Intelligence. Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers 49 (1):8-30.

Landauer, R. 1961. Irreversibility and Heat Generation in the Computing Process. IBM Journal of Research and Development 5:183-191.

Arrow, K.J. 1962. The Economic Implications of Learning by Doing. Review of Economic Studies 80:155-173.

Raup, D.M. 1966. Geometric Analysis of Shell Coiling; General Problems. Journal of Paleontology 40 (5):1178-1190.

Holland, J.H., and J.S. Reitman. 1977. Cognitive Systems Based on Adaptive Algorithms. SIGART Newsletter (63):49.

Gould, S.J., and N. Eldredge. 1977. Punctuated Equilibria: the Tempo and Mode of Evolution Reconsidered. Paleobiology 3 (2):115-151.

Langton, C.G. 1986. Studying Artificial Life with Cellular Automata. Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 22 (1-3):120-149.

M. E. J. Newman. 2005. "Power laws, Pareto distributions and Zipf's law." Contemporary Physics 46, 323-351.

Aaron Clauset, Cosma Rohilla Shalizi, M. E. J. Newman. 2009. "Power-law distributions in empirical data." SIAM Review 51, 661-703.

Last Updated for SFI CSSS13 March 25 2013