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Record Nr.

UNINA9910337679603321

Autore

Gooding Tim

Titolo

Economics for a fairer society : going back to basics using agent-based models  / / by Tim Gooding

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Pivot, , 2019

ISBN

3-030-17020-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (186 pages)

Collana

Palgrave pivot

Disciplina

330.015195

330.1

Soggetti

Economics

Evolutionary economics

Macroeconomics

Microeconomics

Population

Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods

Institutional/Evolutionary Economics

Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics

Population Economics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: First Nation Transition -- Chapter 3: Complexity, Emergence, and Evolution -- Chapter 4: Agent-Based Model History and Development -- Chapter 5: Netlogo -- Chapter 6: Evolution in Netlogo -- Chapter 7: Verifying Model Results -- Chapter 8: Money Distribution -- Chapter 9: System Efficiency -- Chapter 10: Price Basics -- Chapter 11: Evolutionary Price Robustness.-Chapter 12: Inequality: Money Distributions -- Chapter 13: Introducing Life -- Chapter 14: Long-Term Economic Outcome. Chapter 15: Summary and Final Comments.

Sommario/riassunto

This Palgrave Pivot presents experiments that reveal core dynamics of trade in a complex system. Monetary trade is stripped of all its complications and placed in agent-based models, a complexity



research tool capable of reproducing emergent behaviour and evolution. Included are ground-breaking repeatable experiments exploring the impact of evolutionary prerequisites empirically present in markets. Isolating the core dynamics of trade results in very simple agent-based models. However, decades of complexity research demonstrate that even the simplest systems result in emergent behaviour that is extremely difficult to anticipate. Readers who are only familiar with the linear-system theories and models used to train almost all undergraduate economics students might be surprised to witness price detaching from supply and demand, and extreme poverty and wealth arising in trade systems populated by agents with equal ability and opportunity. Watch as empirical evolutionary prerequisites are introduced and price patterns characterising two different markets – asset markets and speculative markets – emerge irrespective of supply and demand. In addition to laying the groundwork of monetary trade in a complex system, more complicated models feature mortal reproductive agents. Including ‘living’ populations in economic models reveal how the complexity characteristics of our market economy are impacting impoverishment and starvation. This book invites anyone interested in economics to join the growing ranks of people who are fascinated by the insights offered by complexity research. .