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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 53. Chapters: Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Alessandro Vespignani, Alexander Chayanov, Andrey Korotayev, Christopher Langton, Chris Adami, Cliff Joslyn, Dante R. Chialvo, Debora Hammond, Desmond Higham, Didier Sornette, Dirk Brockmann, Dirk Helbing, Douglas R. White, Duncan J. Watts, Ernesto Estrada, Francisco Varela, Francis Heylighen, Geoffrey West, Georgiy Starostin, Graeme Snooks, Guido Caldarelli, Heinz von Foerster, Ilya Prigogine, J. A. Scott Kelso, J. Doyne Farmer, James Collins (Boston University), John Henry Holland, Joshua M. Epstein, Mark Newman, Melanie Mitchell, Michael Commons, Michael Stumpf, Mihajlo D. Mesarovic, Murray Gell-Mann, Norman Packard, Paulien Hogeweg, Per Bak, Peter Turchin, Pitirim Sorokin, Ralph Abraham, Richard P. Brent, Robert Axtell, Robert Shaw (physicist), Samuel Bowles (economist), Sergei P. Kurdyumov, Seth Lloyd, Stephen Wolfram, Steven Strogatz, Stuart Kauffman, Tobias Preis, Ugo Pagano, Valentin Turchin, W. Brian Arthur, William L. Burke, Yaneer Bar-Yam. Excerpt: Andrey Korotayev (Russian: born 1961) is a Russian anthropologist, economic historian, and sociologist, with major contributions to world-systems theory, cross-cultural studies, Near Eastern history, Big History, and mathematical modeling of social and economic macrodynamics. Born in Moscow, Andrey Korotayev attended Moscow State University, where he received a B.A. degree in 1984 and an M.A. in 1989. He earned a Ph.D. in 1993 from Manchester University, and in 1998 a Doctor of Sciences degree from the Russian Academy of Sciences. Since 2000, he has been Professor and Director of the Anthropology of the East Center at the Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, and Senior Research Professor in the Oriental Institute and Institute for African Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 2001-2003, he also directed the...
