Re: Econ: Krugman attacks Bionomics

David McFadzean (david@kumo.com)
Tue, 04 Nov 1997 11:14:16 -0700


At 09:17 AM 11/4/97 -0800, Robin Hanson wrote:

>"No more than" is a bit strong. But I think most economists
>and political scientists would agree that information dymamics
>are near the center of most interesting questions. The
>big change is that now, 52 years later, we have powerful tools
>for studying these information dynamics. Most of my study and
>research has been into various types of information processes,
>and very little has been in supply and demand type reasoning.

Interested subscribers may want to check out the web page for
Agent-Based Computational Economics (ACE) which is "roughly
characterized as the computational study of economies modelled
as evolving decentralized systems of autonomous interacting
agents": <http://www.econ.iastate.edu/tesfatsi/ace.htm>

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