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Perplexing Complexity Human Modelling and Primacy of the Group as Essence of Complexity

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This paper describes the emergence of complexity as duplicated evolutionary process. The first procedural source of complexity is the quantum jump of the evolution of the human species when it started to maintain certain brain-internal models of its environment. The second - parallel - procedural origin is the evolution of a communication structure, a language, with which an already existing group of primates could frame their internal models. In contrast to definitions of complexity which use the concept in the context of theoretical physics, this approach reveals some perplexing properties of model-building for a special subject of investigation; namely the human species: All adequate models of political economy (economics is just the sub-discipline that freezes political dynamics) have to be complex. Since today’s mainstream economic theory lends its formal apparatus from the mathematics of Newtonian physics, it misses the most essential features characterizing human social dynamics, i.e. its complexity.

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  • Hanappi, Hardy, 2020. "Perplexing Complexity Human Modelling and Primacy of the Group as Essence of Complexity," MPRA Paper 98129, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    1. Gerhard Hanappi, 2017. "Agent-based modelling. History, essence, future," PSL Quarterly Review, Economia civile, vol. 70(283), pages 449-472.
    2. Hanappi, Gerhard, 2019. "From Integrated Capitalism to Disintegrating Capitalism. Scenarios of a Third World War," MPRA Paper 91397, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    3. Hanappi, Hardy, 2017. "Agent-based modelling. History, essence, future," MPRA Paper 79331, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    Keywords

    Evolutionary Complexity; Quantum Political Economy;

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    • B40 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Economic Methodology - - - General
    • B5 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches
    • B50 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches - - - General
    • P16 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies - - - Capitalist Institutions; Welfare State

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