Péter Érdi has served since 2002 as the Henry Luce Professor of Complex Systems Studies at Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where he teaches interdisciplinary classes and is cross-appointed in the physics and psychology departments. Péter Érdi grew up in Budapest, now an emeritus research professor at the Wigner Research Centre for Physics. Érdi served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier journal Cognitive Systems Research and vice-president of the International Neural Network Society. He is a founding director of a study abroad program, the Budapest Semester in Cognitive Science, which takes international students to Budapest for a semester. Péter Érdi has written well-accepted books published by Princeton University Press, MIT Press, and Springer. The book RANKING: The Unwritten Rules of the Social Game We All Play (Oxford University Press, 2020) has been translated into Chinese (with both simple and complex characters), German, Hungarian, Japanese, and Korean.
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-98908-8
REPAIR propagates a new way of thinking about managing our resources by integrating complex systems theory and social psychology perspectives. By resources, the authors mean objects, such as cell phones and cars, and human resources, such as family members, friends, and the small and large communities they belong to. As we all face the "replace or repair" dichotomy, Readers will understand how to repair themselves, their relationships, and communities, accept the "new normal," and contribute to repairing the world. The book is offered to Zoomers, growing up in a world where everything is falling apart; people in their 30s and 40s who are thinking about how to live a fulfilling life; people from the Boomers generation who are thinking back on life and how to repair relationships. The Reader will enjoy the intellectual adventure of connecting the natural and social worlds and understanding themtransition's pathways from a "throwaway society" to a "repair society”.
Related Event: The Ranking Game from a Hungarian Perspective
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