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Scaling Laws

Organisms, cities, and companies obey systematic power-law scaling with size; sublinear scaling drives economies of scale, superlinear scaling drives accelerating innovation and instability.

Organisms, cities, and companies obey systematic power-law scaling with size; sublinear scaling drives economies of scale, superlinear scaling drives accelerating innovation and instability.

School: Complexity & Scaling (Santa Fe lineage).

Track record

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