Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to present an integrated approach concerning intertemporal choices and the location of economic activity under a simple endogenous growth model. The idea is that time analysis concerning the choices about present and future consumption and the choices on...

Purpose – This paper seeks to explain how inefficient learning rules may lead to a perception of economic and ecological realities that may be systematically distorted in the long run. Design/methodology/approach – The paper evaluates long‐term growth in standard growth‐pollution models....

The aim of this paper is to provide a starting point for the building of practical policy simulation models using ideas from evolutionary economics.

The aim of this paper is to explain patterns of household income within an urban area. A particular pattern common to US cities is for a concentration of the poor in the inner city, with higher-income households farther out, and then lower-income households even farther out. It is the...

<p> The aim is to provide a critical evaluation of the book entitled 'Time, Strategies, Innovation and Environmental Policy' and edited by Christian Sartorius and Stefan Zundel. </p><p> The main emphasis is on the theoretical work developed in the book rather than the empirical part. Indeed twelve case...</p>

There are three different <i>symbol systems</i> available to social scientists: the familiar verbal argumentation and mathematics, but also a third way, computer simulation. Computer simulation, or computational modeling involves representing a model as a computer program. The key question is: What...

This paper models adaptive learning behavior in a simple coordination game that Van Huyck, Cook and Battalio (1994) have investigated in a controlled laboratory setting with human subjects. We consider how populations of artificially intelligent players behave when playing the same game. We use...

Industrial districts are complex systems based on an evolutionary network of interactions among heterogeneous, functionally integrated, complementary and localised firms. The paper describes an agent-based model that allows to investigate some theoretical hypotheses on the relation among...

This paper studies the dynamic and equilibrium-selecting behavior of a multi-agent system consisting of adaptive bargaining agents. We model an adaptive agent as a collection of strategies which is optimized by an evolutionary algorithm (EA). EAs are stochastic search methods based upon the...

The topic of this paper is evolutionary-economic models and how they are implemented in a new, effective system for programming and simulating such models. The evolutionary-economics simulation models are exemplified by the Nelson and Winter family of models of Schumpeterian competition in an...