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Simulating Social Complexity

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This introduces the themes of the book inherent in its title: Simulating Social Complexity. In a deliberate homage to the work of Herbert Simon, it traces the roots of these themes back to his work. It then explains the structure of the handbook with its different parts: introductory, methodological on different kinds of mechanism and applications. It briefly introduces each chapter within this structure.

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    There is an extensive handbook on this (Tesfatsion and Judd 2006).

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Edmonds, B., Meyer, R. (2017). Introduction. In: Edmonds, B., Meyer, R. (eds) Simulating Social Complexity. Understanding Complex Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66948-9_1

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