Social models

Speaker	Robert Axtell	Scott Page
Affiliation	The Brookings Institution	Department of Economics, University of Iowa (Now CSCS, U. Michigan)
Seminar title	Emergence of Institutions and Organizations in Multi-Agent Systems	Computational Models from A to Z
Links	Sugarscape Artificial Life Online Computer Simulation of Societies at University of Surrey Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation Sugarscape in SWARM Web bibliography on individual-based modeling	Swarm99 keynote address SWARM at the Santa Fe Institute Coopers and Lybrand graduate workshop in computational economics at SFI Computational Economic Modeling
Readings	"The Emergence of Economic Classes in an a Bargaining Model", forthcoming, R.L. Axtell, J.M. Epstein, and H.P. Young, MIT Press: Cambridge, Massachusetts. "The Emergence of Firms in a Population of Agents: Local Increasing Returns, Unstable Nash Equilibria, and Power Law Size Distributions," Working paper 99-03-019 of the Santa Fe Institute "Understanding Anasazi Culture Change Through Agent-Based Modeling," with Jeffrey S. Dean, George J. Gumerman, and Joshua Epstein, in George J. Gumerman and Timothy Kohler, Modeling Small-Scale Societies (Oxford University Press / Santa Fe Institute, Forthcoming in 1999). Growing Artificial Societies: Social Science from the Bottom Up, with Joshua M. Epstein (Brookings, MIT Press, 1996) Review by Duffy Review by Tesfatsion	"Two Measures of Difficulty," Economic Theory, forthcoming. "Computational Political Economy," forthcoming in The Economy as a Complex Evolving System II, Addison-Wesley, B. Arthur, S. Durlauf, and D. Lane eds (with Ken Kollman and John Miller). "Political Institutions and Sorting in a Tiebout Model," forthcoming in American Economic Review (with Ken Kollman and John Miller). "Landscape Formation in a Spatial Voting Model," mimeo California Institute of Technology, 1994 (with Ken Kollman and John Miller), forthcoming in Journal of Economic Letters. "On Incentives and Updating in Agent Based Models," mimeo California Institute of Technology, October 1995, forthcoming in Computational Economics.