In vielen Köpfen – sowohl bei Erwachsenen wie auch bei Schülern – geistert der Glaube, dassInformatik die Wissenschaft der „Computerlehre“ ist. Schon der berühmte Satz „In derInformatik geht es genauso wenig um Computer wie in der Astronomie um Teleskope“, derdem Informatiker...

The articles collected in this volume have two features in common: they wantto integrate economics, demography and geography, and they want to overcome the stationary approach in modelling in favour of a dynamic one. The book is subdivided into three parts, where Part I is focussing on economic...

A chaotic process with slow feed back : the case of business cycles / T(c)œnu Puu -- Nonlinear interactions in the economy / Erik Mosekilde, Jesper S. Thomsen, and John Sterman -- Fast and slow processes of economic evolution / (c)ke E. Andersson -- A stochastic model of technological evolution...