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These may well turn out to be some of the building bricks to be used in the construction of any theory of change in complex systems, such as those of the biological and cultural world. Empirical study, however, is the necessary preliminary and counterpart of formal analysis and in the final chapter of this book one specific type of change, systems collapse, is examined and its dynamic morphology out lined. An attempt is then made to identify the general underlying processes which generate this specific allactic type in a variety of very different cultural contexts, widely distributed in time and space.
Are relevant. 2)? T o simplify the discussion, w e temporarily let (c - a)ld = r and b/d = s, so that the equation is 48 I KENNETH L. 3) Let ρ = p(0), that is, let ρ denote the prevailing price at some arbitrarily selected initial time that w e call / = 0. 3) w e have, recursively, p{h) = r - sp p{2h) = r - sp(h) = r - s{r - sp) = {\ - s)r -\- s^p p(ih) = r - sp{lh) = r - s{\ - s)r - s^p = {\ - s + s^r - s^p It can be seen that p(nh) = [1 - 5 + 52 - · · · +(-l)^-^5"-^]r + {-\)Vp where A2 represents any positive integer.