Source Of Hierarchy Research Articles

Good of Plato, the Neoplatonic One, and The God of Dante

Dante’s use of the point, circle, and sphere as images of God and of wax, seal, and light as images of the divine imprint on creation is striking in its likeness to the Platonic and Neoplatonic imagery of the Good and the One, respectively. They convey a similar view of the divine—that of unity, immutability, incorporeality, ubiquitousness, and aseity or existence in and of itself. They view it as the centre and beginning of all creation, as the source of hierarchy in the created world, and as the source of a simultaneous craving for that perfection and for the world of matter, that is for unity and multiplicity.

Markets, Hierarchies, and Networks: An Agent‐Based Organizational Ecology

Markets, hierarchies, and networks are widely understood to be the three primary forms of social organization. In this article, we study the choice between these forms in a general, agent‐based model (ABM) of cooperation. The organizational ecology is the product, an emergent property, of the set of choices made by agents contingent on their individual attributes and beliefs about the population of agents. This is one of the first attempts to theorize explicitly the choice between different organizational forms, especially networks and hierarchies, and certainly the first to do so in an ABM. The insights of the model are applied to current research on transnational networks, social capital, and the sources of hierarchy and especially autocracy.

Supersymmetry breaking in string models and a source of hierarchy (I)

In a certain class of superstring models, supersymmetry is broken in a hidden sector but remains globally conserved in the observable sector of quarks and gluons. We recently identified the symmetry responsible for this property, a noncompact symmetry closely connected with space-time duality. This symmetry is broken by chiral and conformal anomalies, which provides the source of supersymmetry breaking in the observable sector and a possibly large hierarchy of scales. We give here details on our analysis, focussing on the identification of the anomalous terms which provide a source of breaking.