Agent-based modeling: The right mathematics for the social sciences?

The Elgar Companion to Recent Economic Methodology

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 228-258

  Borrill, Paul L ^a   Tesfatsion, Leigh ^b  

^a REPLICUS Software Corporation   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84884074935     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4337/9780857938077.00018     Document Type: Chapter

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