<p> This paper analyses the emergence of sectoral specialisation and its effects on growth rate differences providing an alternative approach to endogenous growth processes. To achieve this, we first investigate the conditions leading to sectoral specialisation as an emergent property from the...</p>

<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>

Agent heterogeneity, alongside several types of learning rules, has been used in recent economic literature to justify nonlinear dynamics for the time paths of aggregate economic variables. In this paper, the mechanism through which heterogeneous agents leads to chaotic motion is...

<p> Over the years "S-shaped" evolutions have regularly been incorporated in economic models, and indeed in those of other sciences, by way of the logistic or Gompertz equations. However, both equations have noteworthy shortcomings when fitting some empirical features of economic growth: the...</p>

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...

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...

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

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...

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...