Scaling in Human Societies


How and Why Size Matters
  • The Fundamental Importance of Marchetti's Constant

    By Michael Goff
    One of our main goals is to understand how socioeconomic quantities, such as gross domestic product, traffic congestion, patenting, crime, and others, scale with the size of the city. To do so, we need to understand what a “city” is, and this is much less straightforward than one might think.... [Read More]