Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
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What do a mouse, a human, a city, and a corporation have in common? In this groundbreaking exploration of complexity science, the author reveals the hidden scaling laws that shape growth, energy use, innovation, aging, and survival across living organisms and human-made systems. Drawing on physics, biology, mathematics, and urban studies, the book shows how simple principles and network structures generate astonishing similarities—and crucial differences—among bodies, cities, economies, and companies. It offers a sweeping yet accessible framework for understanding why systems grow, how they function, and why sustainability and continual innovation remain such difficult challenges.
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paperback
Penguin Press
Published Jan 1, 2017
479 pages
ISBN: 9781594205583
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First Published
2017
Language
eng
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