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This is the keynote address at the annual Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems Conference, July 2000. In this keynote, the nature of organizations and markets as complex systems is discussed.
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Simon, H.A. Complex Systems: The Interplay of Organizations and Markets in Contemporary Society. Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory 7, 79–85 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1011341803977
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