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Author:   D. Linda Garcia
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.570kg
ISBN:  

9781032721101

ISBN 10:   1032721103
Pages:   204
Publication Date:   16 July 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface; Part One: Motivation and Conceptualization; 1. Conceptualizing the Problem; 2. Assent Up the Fitness Landscape: How the American West Was Won; Part Two: History Through the Lens of Complexity Theory; 3. Standards, Norms, and Emergence in Social Settings; 4. Platforms: Springboards for Evolutionary Outcomes; 5. Standards & Phase Transitions in the Middle Ages; 6. Standards and Evolution in a Complex World; Part Three: Standards: The Building Blocks of Complex Outcomes; 7. Complex Monetary Outcomes—Winners, Losers, and the Standards Determining Them; 8. Standards, Modularity, and Innovation; 9. How Standards Engender Trust; 10. Crafting Identity With Standard Memes and Symbols; 11. The Artist as Standards Bearer; Part Four: Standards and Complexity: Summing It Up; 12. Standards, Emergence, & Complexity—Piecing the Puzzle Together.

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D. Linda Garcia is Professor Emeritus at Georgetown University, where she taught courses on Technology and Society, Networks and the Creative Process, Global Standards, Networks and International Development, and The Networked Economy. She also worked for many years at the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), which conducted bipartisan, interdisciplinary research assessing advancing technologies to determine how to maximize their benefits while minimizing their negative consequences. Among the studies that she contributed to were those having to do with transportation, acid rain, radioactive waste, educational technologies, and telecommunication and computer technologies.

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