<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Here is for example a remarkably simple model of wealth distribution and phase transitions in economic systems from Bruce Boghosian at Tufts University</div><div dir="auto">https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-inequality-inevitable/</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-J</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000" dir="auto"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Jochen Fromm <jofr@cas-group.net> </div><div>Date: 6/23/20 21:51 (GMT+01:00) </div><div>To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <Friam@redfish.com> </div><div>Subject: [FRIAM] Societal collapse </div><div><br></div></div><div dir="auto">Is it possible to create agent-based models of societal collapse? This Nature article argues human societies have mind- boggling complexity, but I am not so sure if it is impossible. </div>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00436-3<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-J.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></body></html>