In Defense of Chaos:The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action - by L. K. Samuels (2013)

Finally, someone has tied Chaos Theory to the human experience. I've been waiting for a book like this ever since I first read a book on Chaos Theory and saw clearly for myself that science was finally starting to break free from its cause and effect mentality and realize that even the most random events give rise to order.

This book is well researched but unfortunately poorly thought out and written. It contains a lot of information that is only roughly catagorized and dumped into several uncoordinated chapters. Then it ends without any conclusions or suggestion for further exploration. I suspect that maybe the author wanted to avoid a controversial stance. The evidence and studies in this book seem to me to point to only one conclusion: that the science of cause and effect is limited, and that any attempt by man to understand his own purpose and reason in this world by using his ability to reason and control (manipulate) his environment will - and already has - consistently result in more disorder and chaos (i.e. destruction of the very things we seek to protect). The only solution is to trust the process that somehow brings order out of chaos when we don't try to interfere; to trust the "invisible hand".