From Catastrophe to Chaos: A General Theory of Economic Discontinuities

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From Catastrophe to Chaos: A General Theory of Economic Discontinuities is written by J. Barkley Rosser and published by Springer Science & Business Media. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9401716137 (ISBN 10) and 9789401716130 (ISBN 13).

From Catastrophe to Chaos: A General Theory of Economic Discontinuities presents and unusual perspective on economics and economic analysis. Current economic theory largely depends upon assuming that the world is fundamentally continuous. However, an increasing amount of economic research has been done using approaches that allow for discontinuities such as catastrophe theory, chaos theory, synergetics, and fractal geometry. The spread of such approaches across a variety of disciplines of thought has constituted a virtual intellectual revolution in recent years. This book reviews the applications of these approaches in various subdisciplines of economics and draws upon past economic thinkers to develop an integrated view of economics as a whole from the perspective of inherent discontinuity.