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Book Review: How Nature Works

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I first heard of the late Per Bak and his sandpile theories when I some time back read an article by Koubatis and Schönberger (1995) on Risk management of complex critical systems. Per Bak’s “sandpile” model is as relevant to business and society as Adam Smith’s legendary “invisible hand”.

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