The Economy As an Evolving Complex System III Current Perspectives and Future Directions

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Pub. Date: 2005-10-13
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary

Much of the original motivation for the SFI Economics Program revolved around the belief that economic research could benefit from an injection of new mathematical models and new perspectives on human behavior. Since then, we have found that the SFI approach has greatly enriched economic theory.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Lawrence E. Blume and Steven N. Durlauf
1(4)
The Epidemiology of Macroeconomic Expectations
Christopher D. Carroll
5(26)
Social Learning and the Adoption of Knowledge
Charles F. Manski
31(18)
Rationality and Selection in Asset Markets
Lawrence E. Blume and David Easley
49(18)
Statistical Physics and Economic Fluctuations
H. Eugene Stanley, Xavier Cabaix, Parameswaran Gopikrishnan, and Vasiliki Plerou
67(34)
Market Efficiency. the Pareto Wealth Distribution. and the Levy Distribution of Stock Returns
Moshe Levy
101(32)
A Random Order Placement Model of Price Formation in the Continuous Double Auction
J. Doyne Farmer, László Gillemot, Giulia Iori, Supriya Krishnamurthy, D. Eric Smith, and Marcus G. Daniels
133(42)
Multinomial Choice with Social Interactions
Wiliam A. Brock and Steven N. Durlauf
175(32)
Heterogeneity and Uniqueness in Interaction Games
Stephen Morris and Hyun Song Shin
207(36)
Perspectives on the Economy as an Evolving Complex System
Larry Samuelson
243(24)
The Diffusion of Innovations in Social Networks
H. Peyton Young
267(16)
Dynamic Properties of Local Interaction Models
Timothy G. Conley and Giorgio Topa
283(26)
Useful Knowledge as an Evolving System: The View from Economic History
Joel Mokyr
309(28)
Prosocial Emotions
Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis
337(30)
Index 367

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