{"pk":38155,"title":"Regularities in Human Affairs","subtitle":null,"abstract":"When we review the course of human history or the results of anthropological research we see a delicate interplay of regularity and randomness. This article discusses several regularities in human affairs, including approximate mathematical laws, such as the logistic equation, and semi-empirical regularities, such as a power law or a Guttman scale. The search for regularities in human history is becoming a trifle more respectable than it was formerly. That could well portend some significant improvement in our ability to discuss the human future.","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[{"word":"History"}],"section":"Article","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9gr6z77m","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Murray","middle_name":"","last_name":"Gell-Mann","name_suffix":"","institution":"Santa Fe Institute","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2011-03-21T07:00:00Z","date_accepted":"2011-03-21T07:00:00Z","date_published":"2011-03-31T07:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cliodynamics/article/38155/galley/28720/download/"}]}