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Message started by ray.chan on 09/19/09 at 23:22:54

Title: Santa Fe Institute
Post by ray.chan on 09/19/09 at 23:22:54

Santa Fe Institute
http://www.santafe.edu/
"Understanding of complex adaptive systems is critical to addressing key environmental, technological, biological, economic, and political challenges."

More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventinal
http://www.amazon.com/More-Than-You-Know-Unconventional/dp/0231143729/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1253304373&sr=1-1
" Mauboussin groups his essays into four parts-Investment Philosophy, Psychology of Investing, Innovation and Competitive Strategy, and Science and Complexity Theory-and he includes substantial references for further reading. "

Investing: The Last Liberal Art
http://www.amazon.com/Investing-Liberal-Robert-G-Hagstrom/dp/1587991381/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1253304271&sr=1-1
"It aligns and explains how investment management works in the context of a number of seemingly unrelated disciplines including Biology, Economics, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physics, Psychology, and Literature. "

The Predictors: How a Band of Maverick Physicists Used Chaos Theory to Trade Their Way to a Fortune on Wall Street
http://www.amazon.com/Predictors-Maverick-Physicists-Theory-Fortune/dp/0805057579/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1253304534&sr=1-1
"Doyne Farmer and Norman Packard may never have read The Wall Street Journal, but they happen to be among the founders of the new sciences of chaos and complexity. "

Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
http://www.amazon.com/Complexity-Emerging-Science-Order-Chaos/dp/0671872346/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1253304578&sr=1-5
" The science of complexity studies how single elements, such as a species or a stock, spontaneously organize into complicated structures like ecosystems and economies; stars become galaxies, and snowflakes avalanches almost as if these systems were obeying a hidden yearning for order. "

Title: Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity
Post by ray.chan on 10/21/09 at 16:07:07

Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity
http://books.global-investor.com/books/17706.htm?ginPtrCode=10202
"explains how scientists who study the field of complexity are convinced that certain constant processes are at work in all kinds of unrelated complex systems. "

Title: Emergence: From Chaos To Order
Post by ray.chan on 10/21/09 at 16:14:21

Emergence: From Chaos To Order
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/product-description/0738201421/ref=dp_proddesc_0?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books
"shows us that the 'emergence' of order from chaos has much to teach us about life, mind, and organizations."