Modeling Complexity In Economic And Social Systems
Will be published approx. on 10. December 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
404 pages
978-981-238-035-7 (ISBN)
Description
Economics and the social sciences are, in fact, the "hard" sciences, as Herbert Simon argued, because the complexity of the problems dealt with cannot simply be reduced to analytically solvable models or decomposed into separate subprocesses. Nevertheless, in recent years, the emerging interdisciplinary "sciences of complexity" have provided new methods and tools for tackling these problems, ranging from complex data analysis to sophisticated computer simulations. In particular, advanced methods developed in the natural sciences have recently also been applied to social and economic problems.The twenty-one chapters of this book reflect this modern development from various modeling perspectives (such as agent-based models, evolutionary game theory, reinforcement learning and neural network techniques, time series analysis, non-equilibrium macroscopic dynamics) and for a broad range of socio-economic applications (market dynamics, technological evolution, spatial dynamics and economic growth, decision processes, and agent societies). They jointly demonstrate a shift of perspective in economics and the social sciences that is allowing a new outlook in this field to emerge.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Singapore
Singapore
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 250 mm
Width: 162 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
676 gr
ISBN-13
978-981-238-035-7 (9789812380357)
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Content
Trading Behavior and Excess Volatility in Toy Markets (M Marsili & D Challet); Percolation Models of Financial Market Dynamics (D Stauffer); Electrodynamical Model of Quasi-Efficient Financial Markets (K N Ilinski & A S Stepanenko); Multi-Agent Market Modeling of Foreign Exchange Rates (G Zimmermann et al.); Forecasting Price Increments Using an Artificial Neural Network (F Castiglione); Spectral Regularization, Data Complexity and Agent Behavior (A Ilyinsky); Technological Evolution: Dynamics of Economic and Technological Search Processes in Complex Adaptive Landscapes (W Ebeling et al.); New Results in a Self-Organized Model of Technological Evolution (A Arenas et al.); Ferms' Decision-Making Process in an Evolutionary Model of Industrial Dynamics (W Kwasnicki); Spatial Dynamics and Economic Growth: Modelling Migration and Economic Agglomeration with Active Brownian Particles (F Schweitzer); The Evolution of Industrial Clusters -- Simulating Spatial Dynamics (T Brenner & N Weigelt); The Growth Dynamics of German Business Firms (J Voit); A Dynamic Theory of a Firm: An Application of 'Economic Forces' (M Estola); Decision Processes: Adaptive Platform Dynamics in Multi-Party Spatial Voting (B M R Stadler); Subtle Nonlinearity in Popular Album Charts (R A Bentley & H D G Maschner); Dynamical Aspects in the Adoption of Agri-Environmental Measures (G Weisbuch & G Boudjema); Collective Choice and Mutual Knowledge Structures (D Richards et al.); Agent Societies: Evolutionary Study of Interethnic Co-Operation (V Kvasnicka & J Pospichal); Coalition Factor in the Evolution of Non-Kin Altruism (J-L Dessalles); Optimal Payoff Functions for Members of Collectives (D H Wolpert & K Tumer); A Day at the Beach: Human Agents Self-Organizing on the Sand Pile (H Ishii et al.).