No, equality is just one example. The basic point is that you can have two variables of interest, and increasing one smoothly can cause the value of the other to fluctuate non-smoothly.
The basic point is that you can have two variables of interest, and increasing one smoothly can cause the value of the other to fluctuate non-smoothly.
The article requires registration or prior membership, so I wonder if that’s your conclusion or the authors. Does the author make a convincing case that growing complexity—as opposed to some underlying variable, like Marxian mode of production— causes these nonmonotonic changes?
No, equality is just one example. The basic point is that you can have two variables of interest, and increasing one smoothly can cause the value of the other to fluctuate non-smoothly.
The article requires registration or prior membership, so I wonder if that’s your conclusion or the authors. Does the author make a convincing case that growing complexity—as opposed to some underlying variable, like Marxian mode of production— causes these nonmonotonic changes?