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Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread--The Lessons from a New Science Alex Pentland
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)

Jan 30, 2014 - Join us in the bookstore this month as welcome Seattle writer Robin Oliveira reading from her brand new novel I Always Loved You on February 4th; acclaimed writer Rabih Alameddine joins us onFebruary 6th to read from his new novel An Unnecessary ALEX PENTLANDSocial Physics: How Good Ideas Spread PETER MOUNTFORDThe Dismal Science CHARLES L. Sep 5, 2013 - Last week I wrote of how a paradigm-shift in physics precipitated a revolution in the way the West understood social organization and thus the moral assumptions that legitimized them. Apr 30, 2014 - The deluge of changes that shook Europe around 1800 -- the making of the modern world -- brought with them an explosion of big new ideas, new ways of framing the social, historical, and natural world which we inhabit. Darwin, Freud, Marx, Walras, Carnot, Classical physics offered a view of the world that stressed the fundamental orderliness of nature -- the idea that natural phenomena were mathematical and law-governed. ADLERWizards, Aliens, and Starships: Physics and Math in Fantasy and Science Fiction. The battle between capitalism and communism revealed that centralized planning doesn't promote human flourishing. Evidence It wasn't long before new ideas inspired by the eternal motion of matter and mankind were used to foment the establishment of a new social order, an order based on reason and science, of which the French and American revolutions became paramount examples. Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread—The Lessons from a New Science. Apr 25, 2014 - As such, the science of social change is a science of meme evolution. Some ideas are good for humans. Yet it was the critiques of capitalism from within this multi-decade clash of ideas Thus evolved a new-and-improved Christian religion that spread more easily to incorporate more followers.