Scale and Complexity in Political Economy: A Question of Liberty

Hilton L. Root is Professor of Public Policy, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University. He has authored over 200 publications and 10 books, including Network Origins of the Global Economy: East vs. West in a Complex Systems Perspective (New York, 2020); Dynamics among Nations: The Evolution of Legitimacy and Development in Modern States (Cambridge, Mass., 2013).

Joseph A. E. Shaheen is an Intelligence Community Postdoc Fellow (odni/nctc), Department of Computational and Data Sciences, George Mason University. He is the author of “Emerging the U.S. Firm Size Distribution Using 4.2 Billion Individual Tax Records,” in Nicoleta-Elena Heghes (ed.), RAIS Conference Proceedings (Frankfurt am Main, 2018), 74–82; “Simulating the Ridesharing Economy: The Individual Agent Metro-Washington Area Ridesharing Model (IAMWARM),” in Ted Carmichael, Andrew Collins, and Mirsad Hadzikadic (eds.), Complex Adaptive Systems: Views from the Physical, Natural, and Social Sciences (New York, 2018), 143–168.

Dersu E. Tanca is a doctoral student, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University. He is the author of “Brexit” in “Gerçekleşmesine’ Giden Yol” (“The Road to ‘Getting Brexit Done’”), Birikim Güncel (December 25, 2019), available at https://birikimdergisi.com/guncel/9857/brexit-in-gerceklesmesine-giden-yol#.XgkmRy-B1p8; “Siyasetin Yeşile Boyanması: ‘Marjinal’ Yeşiller Merkeze Yerleşince” (“The Greening of Politics: When ‘Marginal’ Greens Move into the Centre”), AdHoc Dergi (July 2019), available at https://adhocdergi.com/siyasetin-yesile-boyanmasi-marjinal-yesiller-merkeze-yerlesince/.

James W. Vizzard is a doctoral student, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University. He is the author of, with Timothy Capron, “Exporting General Petraeus’s Counterinsurgency Doctrine: An Assessment of the Adequacy of Field Manual 3-24 and the U.S. Government’s Implementation,” Public Administration Review, LXX (2010), 485–493.