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Social engineering is a word growing in prominence since the turn of the last century. The concept has a metaphorical ring to it. One gets the impression that there is some economist or other social scientist working in a laboratory refining some tool or machinery to be used in the social system. But such a metaphoric interpretation is wrong. Until very recently the social and economic sciences and policies have had little or no experimental support.
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Andersson, Å. (1993). From Social Engineering to Synergetics. In: Haken, H., Mikhailov, A. (eds) Interdisciplinary Approaches to Nonlinear Complex Systems. Springer Series in Synergetics, vol 62. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-51030-4_9
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