The growing field of social economics explores how individual behavior is affected by group-level influences, extending the approach of mainstream economics to include broader social motivations and incentives. This book offers a rich and rigorous selection of current work in the field, focusing...

Prelude to chapter 1 : the generativist manifesto --Ch. 1.Agent-based computational models and generative social science /Joshua M. Epstein --Prelude to chapter 2 : confession of a wandering bark --Ch. 2.Remarks on the foundations of agent-based generative social science /Joshua M. Epstein...