{"product_id":"9781402000638","title":"Theory and Decision Library A:: Towards New Foundations of a Knowledge Society","description":"\u003ch1\u003eTheory and Decision Library A:: Towards New Foundations of a Knowledge Society\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eGötschl, Johann\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn a ground-breaking series of articles, one of them written by  a Nobel Laureate, this volume demonstrates the evolutionary dynamic  and the transformation of today's democratic societies into  scientific-democratic societies. It highlights the progress of  modeling individual and societal evaluation by neo-Bayesian utility  theory. It shows how social learning and collective opinion formation  work, and how democracies cope with randomness caused by randomizers.  Nonlinear `evolution equations' and serial stochastic matrices of  evolutionary game theory allow us to optimally compute possible serial  evolutionary solutions of societal conflicts. But in democracies  progress can be defined as any positive, gradual, innovative and  creative change of culturally used, transmitted and stored mentifacts  (models, theories), sociofacts (customs, opinions), artifacts and  technifacts, within and across generations. The most important changes  are caused, besides randomness, by conflict solutions and their  realizations by citizens who follow democratic laws. These laws  correspond to the extended Pareto principle, a supreme, socioethical  democratic rule. According to this principle, progress is any increase  in the individual and collective welfare which is achieved during any  evolutionary progress. \u003cbr\u003e  Central to evolutionary modeling is the criterion of the empirical  realization of computed solutions. Applied to serial conflict  solutions (decisions), evolutionary trajectories are formed; they  become the most influential causal attractors of the channeling of  societal evolution. Democratic constitutions, legal systems etc.,  store all advantageous, present and past, adaptive, competitive,  cooperative and collective solutions and their rules; they have been  accepted by majority votes. Societal laws are codes of statutes  (default or statistical rules), and they serve to optimally solve  societal conflicts, in analogy to game theoretical models or to  statistical decision theory. Such solutions become necessary when we  face harmful or advantageous random events always lurking at the edge  of societal and external chaos. \u003cbr\u003e  The evolutionary theory of societal evolution in democracies presents  a new type of stochastic theory; it is based on default rules and  stresses realization. The rules represent the change of our  democracies into information, science and technology-based societies;  they will revolutionize social sciences, especially economics. Their  methods have already found their way into neural brain physiology and  research into intelligence. In this book, neural activity and the  creativity of human thinking are no longer regarded as  linear-deductive. Only evolutive nonlinear thinking can include  multiple causal choices by many individuals and the risks of internal  and external randomness; this serves the increasing welfare of all  individuals and society as a whole. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cem\u003eEvolution and Progress in Democracies\u003c\/em\u003e is relevant for social  scientists, economists, evolution theorists, statisticians,  philosophers, philosophers of science, and interdisciplinary  researchers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2001-10-31\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9781402000638\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-94-017-1504-1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 235cm x155cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 394\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer Netherlands","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44481598357644,"sku":"9781402000638","price":251.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9781402000638.jpg?v=1775709129","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781402000638","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}