Tramontana, Fabio; Gallegati, Mauro - Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Urbino - 2010
The application in Economics of methods and tools originally thought for other disciplines is not new. In this paper we show how the compartmental approach, typical of Biology, Medicine, Chemistry, etc., can be used as a tool to represent the heterogeneity of the agents and introduce it into the...