An accessible introduction to the essential quantitative methods for making valuable business decisions Quantitative methods-research techniques used to analyze quantitative data-enable professionals to organize and understand numbers and, in turn, to make good decisions. Quantitative Methods:...

In recent years, agent-based simulation has become a widely accepted tool when dealing with complexity in economics and other social sciences. The contributions presented in this book apply agent-based methods to derive results from complex models related to market mechanisms, evolution,...

Die Entscheidungs- und Spieltheorie hat in den letzten Jahren in der Politikwissenschaft dramatisch an Bedeutung gewonnen. Im Fokus stehen strategische Entscheidungen rationaler Akteure. Der Band führt in die grundlegende Konzepte ein und zeigt die Bandbreite möglicher Anwendungen in den...

Biographical note: GintisHerbert: Herbert Gintis holds faculty positions at the Santa Fe Institute and Central European University. He is the author of "Game Theory Evolving" (Princeton), coauthor of "A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution" with Samuel Bowles (Princeton), and...