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 {{a|br|}}{{br|Scale: The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies}}, by {{author|Geoffrey West}}
-{{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. No great surprise: West is a theoretical physicist from the Santa Fe Institute. These people are prone to hardcore [[reductionism]] and simplified mathematical truths — [[steven weinberg]]’s {{br|Lake Views}} was similar — but on the other hand you can see social scientists being a bit sniffy about this outsider traducing their sacred turf and calling it all a simple case of maths.
+{{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. No great surprise: West is a theoretical physicist from the Santa Fe Institute. These people are prone to hardcore [[reductionism]] and simplified mathematical truths — [[Steven Weinberg]]’s {{br|Lake Views}} was similar — but on the other hand you can see social scientists being a bit sniffy about this outsider traducing their sacred turf and calling it all a simple case of maths.
 There are some dimensional constants between organisations of different sizes.