Today's issue of Nature has: an editorial, http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v460/n7256/full/460667a.html, calling for more development of agent based economic models; an opinion piece by J Doyne Farmer and Duncan Foley, http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v460/n7256/full/460685a.html, calling for economic policies informed by agent based economic models; an opinion piece by Josh Epstein, http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v460/n7256/full/460687a.html, about modelling pandemics; and a news article, http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090805/full/460680a.html, asking if agent based models could prevent another economic meltdown.
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