Colleagues:
Routledge has just published my latest book "Agile Actors on Complex Terrains: Transformative Realism and Public Policy" (Routledge, 2016). It brings together complexity science, sociological theory and political economy and applies them to empirical areas of public policy. It shows how complexity science can illuminate the non-linear dynamics of the social world, but only if understood by reference to the unequal distribution of power and advantage.
It will I hope be of interest to colleagues in social policy.
CONTENTS
Introduction
1. Complexity and the Social Sciences
2. Evolution and the Arts of Civilisation
3. Contingent Development and Explanation
4. Rationality, Rationales and Agile Action
5. Positional Advantage: A Three-Dimensional Analysis
6. Navigating Complex Environments
7. Evidence for Agile Policy-Makers
8. Nudge or Nuzzle? – Improving Decisions about Active Citizenship
9. Unequal Rewards and the Super-Rich
Conclusion
A hardback and e-edition are available now: a paperback will follow next year.
More details at: https://www.routledge.com/Agile-Actors-on-Complex-Terrains-Transformative-Realism-and-Public-Policy/Room/p/book/9781138959217
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