2. Autocatalysis in Chemistry and the Origin of Life

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Contributors ix
4. Illustrations xiii
5. Tables xvii
6. Acknowledgments xix
7. The Problem of Emergence 1
8. Part I. Autocatalysis
9. 2. Autocatalysis in Chemistry and the Origin of Life 31
10. 3. Economic Production as Chemistry II 70
11. 4. From Chemical to Social Networks 92
12. Part II. Early Capitalism and State Formation
13. The Emergence of Corporate Merchant-Banks in Dugento Tuscany 115
14. 6. Transposition and Refunctionality 168
15. 7. Country as Global Market 208
16. 8. Conflict Displacement and Dual Inclusion in the Construction of Germany 235
17. Part III. Communist Transitions
18. 9. The Politics of Communist Economic Reform 267
19. 10. Deviations from Design 316
20. 11. The Emergence of the Russian Mobile Telecom Market 334
21. 12. Social Sequence Analysis 347
22. Part IV. Contemporary Capitalism and Science
23. 13. Chance, Nécessité, et Naïveté 375
24. 14 Organizational and Institutional Genesis 434
25. 15. An Open Elite 466
26. 16. Academic Laboratories and the Reproduction of Proprietary Science 496
27. 17. Why the Valley Went First 520
28. 18. Managing the Boundaries of an “Open” Project 545
29. Coda 566
30. Index of Authors 571
31. Index of Subjects 573