Five millennia ago, wealth inequality — which had stayed roughly constant for thousands of years — exploded. It has stayed ...

SFI Life Trustee and Chairman Emeritus Bill Miller has been elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society. Miller ...

Collective action can be highly effective within a community, but can be harder to achieve across communities. People who ...

SFI External Professor Mason Porter (UCLA) has been named a Fellow of the Network Science Society, an organization that supports an interdisciplinary research community that is dedicated to ...

A simple evolutionary process can discover sophisticated methods for emergent information-processing in decentralized spatially extended systems. The mechanisms underlying the resulting emergent ...

Levin, D. A.,Scarpino, S. V. Dated phylogenies rarely include the divergence times of sister intraspecific taxa, and when they do little is said about this subject. We show that over 90% of the ...

The purpose of this project is to develop a model to compare and contrast several competing economic views of the entrepreneur. At issue are the dimensions along which agents bearing the moniker ...

A social system is susceptible to perturbation when its collective properties depend sensitively on a few pivotal components. Using the information geometry of minimal models from statistical physics, ...