Abstract
Chen’s learning competition model, which was introduced to describe the nonequilibrium dynamics of social evolution and regarded as a succeesful application of Prigogine’s nonequilibrium paradingm to social science, is revisited. A simple proof of the nonexistence of a limit cycle in Chen’s model is given and related issues are briefly discussed.
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Sun, G. (1997). No Limit Cycle: Chen’s Learning Competition Model Revisited. In: Fang, F., Sanglier, M. (eds) Complexity and Self-Organization in Social and Economic Systems. Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, vol 449. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-48406-3_9
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