Complexity Reference: compref16 (BibTex)

Authors: Arthur,WB

Year: 1993

Title: Why do things become more complex?

Journal: Scientific American, 268, 92

Comments: General essay, using the two examples of the development of the jet-engine and the administration of research grants to illustrate that things become more complex to overcome limitations, or adapt to a complex environment. If there exists forces to weed out uneccesary complexities this is OK, otherwise it encumbers.

Keywords: COMPLEXITY, ECONOMIC,

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