Chapter 34 Remarks on the Foundations of Agent-Based Generative Social Science

Handbook of Computational Economics

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 1585-1604

  Epstein, Joshua M ^a  

^a BROOKINGS INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

agent based modeling; generative social science; philosophy of social science

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747292548     PISSN: 15740021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1574-0021(05)02034-4     Document Type: Review

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