Module Convenors:

Prof. Pietro Terna (Unito) e Dr. Eleonora Priori (Sant'Anna, Pisa)

Lectures on 7  February 2024

7.2A 11-13

7.2B 15-17

Lecture on 8th February 2024

8.2A 11-13

8.2B 15-17

READING LIST

7.2A Discovering a complex and detailed model of CoViD diffusion: why agents matter.

7.2B Programming a simple model in NetLogo.

8.2A Building a highly realistic stock-flow consistent model: the production side.

8.2B Reasoning about complexity and the representative agent.

Links

7.2A G. Pescarmona, P. , A. Acquadro, P. Pescarmona, G. Russo, E. Sulis, and S. Terna (2021). An Agent-Based Model of COVID-19 Diffusion to Plan and Evaluate Intervention Policies. In N. Bellomo and L. Gibelli, Crowd Dynamics, Volume 3 - Modeling and Social Applications in the Time of COVID-19, Springer Birkhäuser, pp.203-57. https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.08885 

7.2B NetLogo: http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/

8.2A https://github.com/terna/ejmmp/tree/main/model1

8.2B 

A. P. Kirman. Whom or what does the representative individual represent? Journal of Economic Perspectives, 6(2):117–136, June 1992. doi: 10.1257/jep.6.2.117. http://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.6.2.117

J. M. Epstein, (2008). 'Why Model?'. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 11(4)12 https://www.jasss.org/11/4/12.html 

M. Gallegati and A. Kirman. Reconstructing economics: Agent based models and complexity. Complexity Economics, 1:5–31, 2012. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alan-Kirman/publication/276507837_Reconstructing_economics/links/56705d0f08ae5252e6f1e19d/Reconstructing-economics.pdf 

G. Dosi and A. Roventini. More is different ... and complex! the case for agent-based macroeconomics. Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Mar 2019. ISSN 1432-1386. doi: 10.1007/s00191-019-00609-y. URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00191-019-00609-y 

P. Terna (2020). The very complex journey of complexity: a short note. https://terna.to.it/simul/complexity-pt-notes_2020.pdf 

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Agent-Based Modeling in the Philosophy of Science

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/agent-modeling-philscience/