This book gives an overview of the state of the art in five different approaches to social science simulation on the individual level. The volume contains microanalytical simulation models designed for policy implementation and evaluation, multilevel simulation methods designed for detecting...

The articles collected in this volume have two features in common: they wantto integrate economics, demography and geography, and they want to overcome the stationary approach in modelling in favour of a dynamic one. The book is subdivided into three parts, where Part I is focussing on economic...

A chaotic process with slow feed back : the case of business cycles / T(c)œnu Puu -- Nonlinear interactions in the economy / Erik Mosekilde, Jesper S. Thomsen, and John Sterman -- Fast and slow processes of economic evolution / (c)ke E. Andersson -- A stochastic model of technological evolution...