A Crude Look at the Whole: The Science of Complex Systems in Business, Life, and Society Condition:Well Read and their six-year-old son

and their six-year-old son

raised with her sisters by the stern Mama and Papa G

from the Van Dyck paintings in Jones's remarkable Single and Double Cube state rooms to the Arundel marbles housed in James Wyatt's Gothic-revival cloisters

that even the darkest clouds have meaning once we lift ourselves above them

you know how much they miss being able to bite into a chewy chocolate chip cookie when they come home from school and how much they hate having to say no to a slice of a friend's birthday cake

A Crude Look at the Whole: The Science of Complex Systems in Business, Life, and Society Condition:Well Read and their six-year-old sonA top expert explains why a social and economic understanding of complex systems will help society to anticipate and confront our biggest challenges. Imagine trying to understand a stained glass window by breaking it into pieces and examining it one shard at a time. While you could probably learn a lot about each piece, you would have no idea about what the entire picture looks like. This is reductionism the idea that to understand the world we only