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Italian abstract: Questo articolo propone una riflessione metodologica sulla dimensione simbolico-culturale dei processi di sviluppo locale, in funzione dello sviluppo di modalità più efficaci di pianificazione e realizzazione degli stessi, secondo linee di sviluppo sostenibile sia dal punto...

In this paper we provide a brief introduction to the literature on agent-based financial modelling and, more specifically, artificial stock market modelling. In the selective literature review two broad categories of artificial stock market models are discussed: models based on hard-wired rules...

One of the rude awakenings for economists from the current recession is an emerging understanding that economics has gone wild with its highbrow mathematical models that bear little resemblance to reality. The failure of economics to predict and solve the current global recession, has restored...