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Review of J. M. Epstein and R. Axtell, Growing Artificial Societies: Social Science from the Bottom Up

Tesfatsion, Leigh

Journal of Economic Literature

This essay provides a brief review of the famous Epstein and Axtell book on agent-based modeling for social scientists that uses the ABM trading model SugarScape for concrete illustration.

JEL Classification: C6, C7, D, E

Keywords: agent-based modeling, social sciences, SugarScape