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 {{a|br|}}{{br|Scale: The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies}}, {{author|Geoffrey West}}
-Fascinating book though probably somewhat in thrall to the [[financialisation]] of everything, in that it seeks to extract mathematical rules that explain sociological, as well as biological, phenomena.
+{{drop|F|ascinating book, though}} probably somewhat in thrall to the [[financialisation]] of everything, in that it seeks to extract mathematical rules that explain sociological, as well as biological, phenomena.
-there are some dimensional constants between organisations of different sizes.
+There are some dimensional constants between organisations of different sizes.
 There seems to be something about the factor of four: scale factors are all expressed in “fourths” — five fourths, halves, three-quarters and so on — though West doesn’t offer a theory for what it is, and in any case isn’t clear anything really turns on it. Lots of numbers are expressible in fractions denominated by four.