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100 1 $aBuchanan, Mark.
245 14 $aThe social atom :$bwhy the rich get richer, cheaters get caught, and your neighbor usually looks like you /$cMark Buchanan.
250 $a1st U.S. ed.
260 $aNew York :$bBloomsbury USA :$bDistributed to the trade by Holtzbrink Publishers,$c2007.
300 $axii, 242 pages :$billustrations ;$c22 cm
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505 0 $aThink patterns, not people -- The "human" problem -- Our thinking instincts -- The adaptive atom -- The imitating atom -- The cooperative atom -- Together, apart -- Conspiracies and numbers -- Forward to the past.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 205-231) and index.
520 $aThe idiosyncrasies of human decision-making have confounded economists and social theorists for years. If each person makes choices for personal (and often irrational) reasons, how can people's choices be predicted by a single theory? How can any economic, social, or political theory be valid? The truth is, none of them really are. This book makes the fascinating argument that the science of physics is beginning to provide a new picture of the human or "social atom," and help us understand the surprising, and often predictable, patterns that emerge when they get together. Look at patterns, not people, the author argues, and rules emerge that can explain how movements form, how interest groups operate, and even why ethnic hatred persists. Using similar observations, social physicists can predict whether neighborhoods will integrate, whether stock markets will crash, and whether crime waves will continue or abate. Brimming with mind games and provocative experiments, the book is an incisive, accessible, and comprehensive argument for a whole new way to look at human social behavior.
650 0 $aCollective behavior.
650 0 $aSegregation.
650 0 $aEthnic relations.
650 7 $aCollective behavior.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00867354
650 7 $aEthnic relations.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00916005
650 7 $aSegregation.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01111205
650 7 $aMasspsykologi.$2sao
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650 7 $aEtniska relationer.$2sao
650 7 $aSegregation.$2sears
655 4 $aNonfiction.
776 08 $iOnline version:$aBuchanan, Mark.$tSocial atom.$b1st U.S. ed.$dNew York : Bloomsbury USA : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrink Publishers, 2007$w(OCoLC)608476727
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip078/2007001188.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0705/2007001188-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0705/2007001188-d.html
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