Readings
"Chaos on the Trading Floor", Robert Savit, Ch. 14 in the Exploring Chaos text.
"A Nice Little War: Can We Predict/Explain the Outbreak of War?" Chapter 5 in Searching for Certainty: What Scientists Can Know About the Future,(1990), William Morrow and Company, New York. (Out of Print)
War and Chaos, Alvin M. Saperstein, American Scientist. November-December 1995
"Dynamical Modeling in History", Alvin M. Saperstein, Physics and Society Oct '97. (Note: this site contains several articles. The Saperstein article is approx. in the middle of the lengtht document.
Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos
Theory in Economics: a Historical Perspective, Artem
B. Prokhorov, Michigan State University, 2001
"Taking on Rational Man", Peter Monaghan, Chronicle of Higher Education Jan. 24, 2003
"Stimulating nonsense", Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr., Washington Times, Feb. 4, 2003
Other Background Reading/Sites
“Chaos and the Making of International Security Policy”, A.M. Saperstein in (from The Ubiquity of Chaos, AAAS 1989)
The online Beer Game. An online supply chain management simulator.
www.masystem.com/beergame