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Chapter 1 introduced a general view on agent-based models, reporting a list of advances in economics, and more generally in social sciences, coming from their use, with some caveats. It is now useful to discuss complexity, agents and their models.
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Terna, P. (2015). From Complexity to Agents and Their Models. In: Agent-based Models of the Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137339812_2
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