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Complex Economics

Individual and Collective Rationality

By: Alan Kirman

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Complex Economics

Individual and Collective Rationality

By: Alan Kirman

The economic crisis is also a crisis for economic theory. Most analyses of the evolution of the crisis invoke three themes, contagion, networks and trust, yet none of these play a major role in standard macroeconomic models. What is needed is a theory in which these aspects are central. The direct interaction between individuals, firms and banks does not simply produce imperfections in the functioning of the economy but is the very basis of the functioning of a modern economy. This book suggests a way of analysing the economy which takes this point of view. The economy should be considered as a complex adaptive system in which the agents constantly react to, influence and are influenced by, the other individuals in the economy. In such systems which are familiar from statistical physics and biology for example, the behaviour of the aggregate cannot be deduced from the behaviour of the average, or "representative" individual. Just as the organised activity of an ants’ nest cannot be understood from the behaviour of a "representative ant" so macroeconomic phenomena should not be assimilated to those associated with the "representative agent". This book provides examples where this can clearly be seen. The examples range from Schelling’s model of segregation, to contributions to public goods, the evolution of buyer seller relations in fish markets, to financial models based on the foraging behaviour of ants. The message of the book is that coordination rather than efficiency is the central problem in economics. How do the myriads of individual choices and decisions come to be coordinated? How does the economy or a market, "self organise" and how does this sometimes result in major upheavals, or to use the phrase from physics, "phase transitions"? The sort of system described in this book is not in equilibrium in the standard sense, it is constantly changing and moving from state to state and its very structure is always being modified. The economy is not a ship sailing on a well-defined trajectory which occasionally gets knocked off course. It is more like the slime described in the book "emergence", constantly reorganising itself so as to slide collectively in directions which are neither understood nor necessarily desired by its components.

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Routledge

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1136941673

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Social Choice and the Mathematics of Manipulation

By: Alan D. Taylor

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Social Choice and the Mathematics of Manipulation

By: Alan D. Taylor

Honesty in voting, it turns out, is not always the best policy. Indeed, in the early 1970s, Allan Gibbard and Mark Satterthwaite, building on the seminal work of Nobel laureate Kenneth Arrow, proved that with three or more alternatives there is no reasonable voting system that is non-manipulable; voters will always have an opportunity to benefit by submitting a disingenuous ballot. The ensuing decades produced a number of theorems of striking mathematical naturality that dealt with the manipulability of voting systems. This 2005 book presents many of these results from the last quarter of the twentieth century, especially the contributions of economists and philosophers, from a mathematical point of view, with many new proofs. The presentation is almost completely self-contained, and requires no prerequisites except a willingness to follow rigorous mathematical arguments. Mathematics students, as well as mathematicians, political scientists, economists and philosophers will learn why it is impossible to devise a completely unmanipulable voting system.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521008832

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Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire

By: Ga ́bor A ́goston,Bruce Alan Masters

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Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire

By: Ga ́bor A ́goston,Bruce Alan Masters

Presents a comprehensive A-to-Z reference to the empire that once encompassed large parts of the modern-day Middle East, North Africa, and southeastern Europe.

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1438110251

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Left Behind

A Study of Mental Handicap

By: W. Alan Heaton-Ward

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Left Behind

A Study of Mental Handicap

By: W. Alan Heaton-Ward

First Published in 1978. The primary aim of this book is to provide authoritative accounts of several important topics in the complex and rapidly developing field of psychiatric disorder, presented in such a way as to be of interest and value to those involved in social work, using this term in its widest sense. It was hoped that the series would also be of help to the interested layman who wished an accurate, but not over-technical description of modern developments in mental health practice. The author argues that, with proper support, the practices discussed within could rapidly become one of the most productive areas of preventive medicine and of rationally designed therapy.

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Routledge

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1136894977

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Fair Division

From Cake-Cutting to Dispute Resolution

By: Steven J. Brams,Alan D. Taylor

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Fair Division

From Cake-Cutting to Dispute Resolution

By: Steven J. Brams,Alan D. Taylor

Cutting a cake, dividing up the property in an estate, determining the borders in an international dispute - such problems of fair division are ubiquitous. Fair Division treats all these problems and many more through a rigorous analysis of a variety of procedures for allocating goods (or 'bads' like chores), or deciding who wins on what issues, when there are disputes. Starting with an analysis of the well-known cake-cutting procedure, 'I cut, you choose', the authors show how it has been adapted in a number of fields and then analyze fair-division procedures applicable to situations in which there are more than two parties, or there is more than one good to be divided. In particular they focus on procedures which provide 'envy-free' allocations, in which everybody thinks he or she has received the largest portion and hence does not envy anybody else. They also discuss the fairness of different auction and election procedures.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521556449

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Genetic Counselling

By: Alan Carruth Stevenson,B. C. Clare Davison

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Genetic Counselling

By: Alan Carruth Stevenson,B. C. Clare Davison

Genetic Counselling, Second Edition covers genetic counseling, which is mainly concerned with advising people about the risk that a member of a family will suffer from a congenital or hereditary disorder. This edition updates topics such as the advent of differential staining of chromosomes and extensive use of amniocentesis and other techniques in pre-natal diagnosis. When considering defects and disorders, an attempt is made to indicate where risk estimates should present no problems to the practicing physician, and where, by reason of genetical, statistical, or diagnostic complexities, it may be advisable to seek some specialist opinion. This book concentrates on such estimations of risk, emphasizing that pre-requisites for adequate estimations of risks are as accurate a diagnosis as possible. The mechanisms of inheritance of the trait or availability of data on which to base empirical estimates are also deliberated. This publication is intended as a guide to clinicians and as an aide-memoire to medical geneticists.

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Elsevier

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1483193047

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Readings In General Psychology

By: Halmos, Paul & Iliffe, Alan

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Readings In General Psychology

By: Halmos, Paul & Iliffe, Alan

This is Volume XI of thirty-eight of collection of works on General Psychology. Initially published in 1959, with the aim of helping students of psychology, the intention in making this collection of papers is to provide a textbook which instead of the panoramic and superficial presentation of the whole field of psychology we have chosen to show a closer and more detailed view of a limited number of topics in an offering of twelve essays.

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1136322566

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Tennessee Legends and Lore

By: Dr. Alan N. Brown

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Tennessee Legends and Lore

By: Dr. Alan N. Brown

The Spooky Side of the Volunteer State Tennessee is steeped in legend. From strange sightings to odd and macabre crimes, the Volunteer State is no stranger to lore. Author Alan Brown details the haunts, troubling crimes and spooky past.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439677123

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Left Behind

A Study of Mental Handicap

By: William Alan Heaton-Ward

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Left Behind

A Study of Mental Handicap

By: William Alan Heaton-Ward

First Published in 1978. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Psychology Press

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071300164X

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The Illustrated Librarian

By: Alan Duckworth

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The Illustrated Librarian

By: Alan Duckworth

How reference librarians, once revered shamans and warriors of the tribe, declined and disappeared under the onslaught of new technologies.

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Lulu.com

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0244833591

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9780244833596

A Commentary on Herodotus Books I-IV

By: David Asheri,Alan Lloyd,Aldo Corcella

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A Commentary on Herodotus Books I-IV

By: David Asheri,Alan Lloyd,Aldo Corcella

Herodotus, one of the earliest and greatest of Western prose authors, set out in the late fifth century BC to describe the world as he knew it. This commentary by leading scholars, originally published in Italian, has been fully revised by the original authors and is now presented for English readers.

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Oxford University Press

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0198149565

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Complex Economics

Individual and Collective Rationality

By: Alan Kirman

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Complex Economics

Individual and Collective Rationality

By: Alan Kirman

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Economics with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents

By: Alan Kirman,Jean-Benoit Zimmermann

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Economics with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents

By: Alan Kirman,Jean-Benoit Zimmermann

This book analyses situations in which individual agents, who might be different from each other, interact and produce behaviour on the aggregate level which does not correspond to that of the average actor. This leads to aggregate outcomes which would be impossible to explain in a more standard approach. Aggregation generates structure and, as a result, interaction and heterogeneity can be handled and we no longer have to rely on the over-simplified reduction of the behaviour of the economy to that of a "rational" individual.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540422099

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Long Memory in Economics

By: Gilles Teyssière,Alan P. Kirman

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Long Memory in Economics

By: Gilles Teyssière,Alan P. Kirman

Assembles three different strands of long memory analysis: statistical literature on the properties of, and tests for, LRD processes; mathematical literature on the stochastic processes involved; and models from economic theory providing plausible micro foundations for the occurrence of long memory in economics.

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3540346252

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The Complex Dynamics of Economic Interaction

Essays in Economics and Econophysics

By: Mauro Gallegati,Alan P. Kirman,Matteo Marsili

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The Complex Dynamics of Economic Interaction

Essays in Economics and Econophysics

By: Mauro Gallegati,Alan P. Kirman,Matteo Marsili

The economy is examined by the authors as a complex interactive system. The emphasis is on the direct interaction between agents rather than on the indirect and autonomous interaction through the market mechanism. Contributions from economists and physicists emphasise the consequences for aggregate behaviour of the interaction between agents with limited rationality. Models of financial markets which exhibit many of the stylised facts of empirical markets such as bubbles, herd behaviour and long memory are presented. This includes contributions on bargaining, buyer-seller relations, the evolution of economic networks and several aspects of macro-economic behaviour. This book will be of interest to all those interested in the foundations of collective social and economic behaviour and in particular, to those concerned with the dynamics of market behaviour and recent applications of physics to economics.

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Book's by Alan Kirman

Complex Economics

Complex Economics

Social Choice and the Mathematics of Manipulation

Social Choice and the Mathematics of Manipulation

Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire

Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire

Left Behind

Left Behind

Fair Division

Fair Division

Genetic Counselling

Genetic Counselling

Readings In General Psychology

Readings In General Psychology

Tennessee Legends and Lore

Tennessee Legends and Lore

Left Behind

Left Behind

The Illustrated Librarian

The Illustrated Librarian

A Commentary on Herodotus Books I-IV

A Commentary on Herodotus Books I-IV

Complex Economics

Complex Economics

Economics with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents

Economics with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents

Long Memory in Economics

Long Memory in Economics

The Complex Dynamics of Economic Interaction

The Complex Dynamics of Economic Interaction

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