Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Deirdre McCloskey -- 2. Kenneth G. Binmore -- 3. Herbert Gintis -- 4. Robert H. Frank -- 5. Matthew Rabin -- 6. William A. ("Buz") Brock -- 7. Duncan K. Foley -- 8. Richard B. Norgaard -- 9. Robert Axtell and H. Peyton Young -- 10. Kenneth Arrow...

This book considers the benefits of complexity, suggesting that economists should become a bit less certain in their policy conclusions. A broader range of models would include agent-based models, which use computational power to deal with specification of models that are far beyond analytic...