“This book relies only occasionally on the analysis of chaos—a science initiated by Benoit Mandelbrot (1975) and Robert May (1976); in contrast, it relies heavily on the ideas of network science. Although it can be traced back to system theory which flourished in the 1960s and 1970s, network science really emerged in the late 1990s through the works of people such as Albert-Laszlo Barabasi (2002), Sergei Maslov (2002), Steven Strogatz (2003) or Duncan Watts (2003).”(add discussion)
See main: Human chemical bondIn 2005, Roehner, in his “A Bridge Between Liquids and Socio-Economic Systems: the Key Role of Interaction Strengths”, posited that suicide is a type of escape phenomenon similar to way molecules in liquids and selective evaporation due to bonding rearrangements and weak ties. [6]
“Emile Durkheim, at the end of the nineteenth century, was able to show that there is a clear relationship between the likelihood of suicide and the strength of the bonds which link and individual to the rest of society.”
Roehner's measurement of social bonds table; one of the aims of his book being to outline methods to measure social bond strengths. |
“We always found that the spaces traversed by the ball were to each other as the squares of the times and this was true for all inclinations and for all balls.”
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”— John Adams (1770), cited by Bertrand Roehner in Driving Forces (pg. v)