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Towards a Post-Keplerian social science: Comments by P. Érdi on the Visioneer white papers by D. Helbing and S. Balietti

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This article comments on the Visioneer (Envisioning a Socio Economic Knowledge Collider) Project as described in the following white papers [1–3].

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  1. Center for Complex Systems Studies, Kalamazoo College, 1200 Academy Street, Kalamazoo, MI 49006, USA

    P. Érdi

  2. Department of Biophysics, KFKI Res. Inst. Nuclear and Particle Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

    P. Érdi

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Érdi, P. Towards a Post-Keplerian social science: Comments by P. Érdi on the Visioneer white papers by D. Helbing and S. Balietti. Eur. Phys. J. Spec. Top. 195, 147–151 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2011-01406-3

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