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Measures of Social EvolutionMore Detailed Considerations

Measures of Social Evolution: More Detailed Considerations [The chapter starts by introducing two perspectives of the evolution of society—the information perspective and the economic perspective. They are closely coupled, in that the economic perspective describes the physical environment in which the information processing and, above all, exchange takes place, and in that the actions and processes in the economic perspective are determined by the information available. The latter relationship illustrates the great importance of the availability and quality of the information circulating in society. In addition to the economic measures of Chap. 2, two additional measures are introduced—social and structural complexity, but although they are conceptually important, they remain largely qualitative as far as nations are concerned, because significant data is difficult to obtain.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

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Publisher
Springer Singapore
Copyright
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
ISBN
978-981-16-1799-7
Pages
41 –51
DOI
10.1007/978-981-16-1800-0_3
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Abstract

[The chapter starts by introducing two perspectives of the evolution of society—the information perspective and the economic perspective. They are closely coupled, in that the economic perspective describes the physical environment in which the information processing and, above all, exchange takes place, and in that the actions and processes in the economic perspective are determined by the information available. The latter relationship illustrates the great importance of the availability and quality of the information circulating in society. In addition to the economic measures of Chap. 2, two additional measures are introduced—social and structural complexity, but although they are conceptually important, they remain largely qualitative as far as nations are concerned, because significant data is difficult to obtain.]

Published: Apr 30, 2021

Keywords: Belief; Circulating information; Cognitive complexity; Collective intelligence; Identity; Interaction intensity; Interaction strength; Social complexity; Structural complexity

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