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The two messages of complexity theories and their implications to the study of society: Comments by J. Portugali on the Visioneer white papers by D. Helbing and S. Balietti

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This article comments on the Visioneer (Envisioning a Socio Economic Knowledge Collider) Project as described in the following white papers [1–3].b bThe comments are based on my new book Complexity, Cognition and the City [4].

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Portugali, J. The two messages of complexity theories and their implications to the study of society: Comments by J. Portugali on the Visioneer white papers by D. Helbing and S. Balietti. Eur. Phys. J. Spec. Top. 195, 153–158 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2011-01407-2

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