Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART I. Once Over Lightly . . . -- 1. Growth Model in Excel -- 2. Neural Nets in Excel -- 3. Partial Equilibrium in Mathematica -- 4. Transportation in GAMS -- 5. Databases in Access -- 6. Thrift in GAMS (with Genevieve Solomon) -- 7....

"This book presents an introductory and compact overview of methods, models and interdisciplinary links of Artificial Economics. This is a new way of doing Economics, in which the interactions of artificial economic agents are computationally simulated to study their individual and group...

This introductory overview explores the methods, models and interdisciplinary links of artificial economics, a new way of doing economics in which the interactions of artificial economic agents are computationally simulated to study their individual and group behavior patterns. Conceptually and...