It investigates with much sensibility, the methodological implications of agent-based models for social sciences in general and economics in particular.
Methodology and techniques are ``largely under
construction'' according to Terna, who proceeds to present a generalized
Environment-Rules-Agent scheme as a tool to assist the
researcher in the design of a ``bottom-up'' model.
A package bp-ct is proposed as an easy way in building
and running artificial laboratories for social scientists. The
package is finally employed to produce a spontaneous no-auctioneer
Hayekian market.
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