Pieter, A few years back, an economist colleague and I put together an honors course in alternative approaches to economics. I focused on economic anthropology and he focused on agent based modeling. He used excerpts from these two books and recommended the second one for student reading. You might find them interesting. Sorry for the Amazon links, i try to use independent bookstores whenever I can.
https://www.amazon.com/Agent-Based-Models-Economics-Domenico-Delli/dp/1108414990/ref=sr_1_4?crid=235GDT8XKIZRV&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.L5ByQzLJiwZjSQiCA_INXUhvBQOe2ri2zpYKQPbWgBf60nK2KBTi0QHYEj-3LKoOeWoQbwQWgAZ1xaH_-_heHvbFvWWCHnyeFAmnDoK2vgJbLzcymqM_rMV082-d08FB39dzLNAL6yglvRx2cQ6RO-DtzhXqeOaoxY5GoxU9omhB74tHxgvxbtpLwxGmSUDxMcznHF_JB9Kl-L1bkRI_SR_bn0IAeVBrb78e2hSgTNc.OGaF9PpGGeGfNXDH2getl5Gbr1qE3epjVTG5aY9ef34&dib_tag=se&keywords=agent+based+economics&qid=1744726625&sprefix=agent+based+economics%2Caps%2C649&sr=8-4 https://www.amazon.com/Agent-Based-Modelling-Economics-Lynne-Hamill/dp/1118456076/ref=sr_1_6?crid=235GDT8XKIZRV&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.L5ByQzLJiwZjSQiCA_INXUhvBQOe2ri2zpYKQPbWgBf60nK2KBTi0QHYEj-3LKoOeWoQbwQWgAZ1xaH_-_heHvbFvWWCHnyeFAmnDoK2vgJbLzcymqM_rMV082-d08FB39dzLNAL6yglvRx2cQ6RO-DtzhXqeOaoxY5GoxU9omhB74tHxgvxbtpLwxGmSUDxMcznHF_JB9Kl-L1bkRI_SR_bn0IAeVBrb78e2hSgTNc.OGaF9PpGGeGfNXDH2getl5Gbr1qE3epjVTG5aY9ef34&dib_tag=se&keywords=agent+based+economics&qid=1744726737&sprefix=agent+based+economics%2Caps%2C649&sr=8-6 davew On Tue, Apr 15, 2025, at 2:23 AM, Pieter Steenekamp wrote: > I'm feeling encouraged by an early milestone in my journey to develop an > agent-based model of macroeconomics—built from the bottom up—to help capture > the complex and often surprising behaviors that emerge in real-world > economies. The model is still very much a work in progress, but the goal is > to gain some insight into the non-intuitive dynamics that shape economic > systems. > > In this initial prototype, agents—countries, businesses, and citizens—are > generated randomly. While the simulation runs and produces output, the > results are still mostly noise and not yet meaningful. Much refinement lies > ahead. > > The overall design is entirely my own—something today’s AI can't yet create > from scratch—but I’m deeply grateful for the coding help provided by several > free AI tools. Thanks to Claude, ChatGPT, Grok, and Microsoft Copilot for > being tireless assistants in getting the project to this point. > > If you're curious about the code, it's available here: > https://github.com/pieterSteenekamp/bottom-up-macroeconomics > .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / ... > --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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