Take a piece of the whole and examine it, and you can understand the whole. That's the basic principle behind reductionism.
And economist/social scientist John H. Miller is having none of it.
Miller chucks the idea of micro-analysis in favor of a macro view, in A Crude Look at the Whole.
And he says studying systems all at once can lead to understanding some keys to life on earth, including climate change, ecosystems, and financial collapses. The author joins us for a crude look at his book.
