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Economics And Complexity

In: Industry And Labor Dynamics The Agent-Based Computational Economics Approach

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  • ALAN KIRMAN

    (CGREQAM, EHESS, Universite d’Aix Marseille, 2 Rue de la Charite, 13002 Marseille, France)

Abstract

This paper presents a view of the economy as a complex system with heterogeneous interacting agents who collectively organise themselves to generate aggregate phenomena which cannot be regarded as the behaviour of some average or representative individual. There is an essential difference between the aggregate and the individual and such phenomena as bubbles and crashes, herd behaviour the transmission of information and the organisation of trade are better modelled in the sort of framework suggested here than in more standard economic models.

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  • Alan Kirman, 2004. "Economics And Complexity," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Roberto Leombruni & Matteo Richiardi (ed.), Industry And Labor Dynamics The Agent-Based Computational Economics Approach, chapter 2, pages 3-21, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
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    JEL classification:

    • B21 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought since 1925 - - - Microeconomics
    • B22 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought since 1925 - - - Macroeconomics
    • G34 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Mergers; Acquisitions; Restructuring; Corporate Governance
    • D23 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Organizational Behavior; Transaction Costs; Property Rights
    • O47 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence

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