
Nature of Technology
What It Is and How It Evolves
W.Brian Arthur(Author)
Atria Books (Publisher)
Published on 11. January 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-1-4165-4406-7 (ISBN)
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Originally published in hardcover by Free Press in 2009.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 141 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
225 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4165-4406-7 (9781416544067)
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08/2009
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Person
W. Brian Arthur is an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute and a Visiting Researcher at PARC (Palo Alto Research Center). Formerly he was Morrison Professor of Economics and Population Studies at Stanford University. One of the pioneers of complexity theory, he also formulated the influential “theory of increasing returns,” which offered a paradigm-changing explanation of why some high-tech companies achieve breakaway success. Former director of PARC John Seeley Brown has said of him, “Hundreds of millions of dollars slosh around Silicon Valley every day based on Arthur’s ideas.” Arthur is the recipient of the International Schumpeter Prize in Economics, and the inaugural Lagrange Prize in Complexity Science. He lives in Palo Alto, California.