Chapter 16 Agent-Based Computational Economics: A Constructive Approach to Economic Theory

Handbook of Computational Economics

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 831-880

  Tesfatsion, Leigh ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

agent based computational economics; agent oriented programming; behavioral uncertainty; complex adaptive systems; decentralized market processes; endogenous interactions; institutions; learning; strategic rivalry

Indexed keywords

EID: 66049110085     PISSN: 15740021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1574-0021(05)02016-2     Document Type: Review

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