An attempt is made here to report briefly on the new developments on nonlinear dynamics (NLD) and suggest some implications for economies. The theory of bifurcations, catastrophes and chaos can throw much needed light on innumerable economic phenomena. NLD may help in better understanding of a pluralistic world of the mechanical and the evolutionary.
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