Journal on Policy & Complex Systems Volume 4, Number 1, Spring 2018 | Page 5

Journal on Policy and Complex Systems
with the two-pronged aim of improving interoperability between different epistemological communities and outlining a formal grammar that sets the basis for modeling international politics as a complex adaptive system .”
Cynthia Kurtz in “ Are We Ready for Complexity ?” describes a series of “ explorations into scientific concepts related to complexity and chaos and how they have been translated into the world of business and organizations .” In each of three case example , a story of uncertainty was rewritten into a story of certainty . In them , the author ponders “ what they tell us about our readiness to benefit from the not-always-comforting insights of complexity theory .”
“ Keynes , Hayek , and the Roots of Complexity Theory in Economics ” by Hilton L . Root revisits the great debate between John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich Hayek in the context of how they viewed the economic system . Both Keynes and Hayek believed that “ the economy is a ‘ living ,’ changing system of interacting parts , but Keynes held that one could apply mechanics to direct and guide the system and Hayek believed in letting the same system self-organize .” This discussion is offered as a prism for analyzing the modern economic system .
Steve Wallis and Liz Johnson in “ Using Integrative Propositional Analysis ( IPA ) to Understand and Integrate Four Theories of Social Power Systems ” present a foundational piece on feedback mechanisms that allow for the development of complexity within a social network , in relation to social power systems . Through IPA , researchers can measure social power changes within a hierarchy . The article serves as a catalyst for further debate on the means to accumulate social power .
These papers offer an invaluable background for evaluating and addressing the ever-increasing economic , social , and political challenges of the world today .
Mirsad Hadžikadić Editor , JPCS

Esta edición de Journal on Policy and Complex Systems ( JPCS ) está enfocada en el estudio de los negocios / economía y las relaciones internacionales como sistemas adaptativos y complejos .

El documento de Neto y Garcia , “ Sistemas complejos de propiedad de larga memoria : una conexión interesante ,” aborda el interesante tema de la relación entre los sistemas de memoria y los sistemas complejos en el contexto de las condiciones de negocios que comúnmente ocurren en un amplio grupo de series de tiempo que se encuentran dentro de los problemas económicos / financieros . Demuestran que “ la heterogeneidad de los agentes , interacciones locales y complejidad
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