{"id":36733,"date":"2013-02-19T12:51:52","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T10:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=36733"},"modified":"2013-02-19T12:51:52","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T10:51:52","slug":"james-b-glattfelder-who-controls-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=36733","title":{"rendered":"James B. Glattfelder: Who controls the world?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/lang\/el\/james_b_glattfelder_who_controls_the_world.html\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>James Glattfelder studies complexity: how an interconnected system &#8212; say, a swarm of birds &#8212; is more than the sum of its parts. And complexity theory, it turns out, can reveal a lot about how the economy works. 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