ABSTRACT

This book proceeds from a meeting at the Santa Fe Institute where economists and physical and biological scientists came together to discuss a conceptual framework incorporating a more appropriate mathematics with a greatly strengthened capacity to deal simultaneously with multiple variables, nonlinearity, incomplete information and dynamical processes.

part 1|6 pages

Introduction and Overview

part 2|235 pages

Lectures and Perspectives

chapter 3|16 pages

Neural Nets for Economists

part 4|7 pages

Final Plenary Discussion

chapter 17|5 pages

Final Plenary Discussion

part 5|19 pages

V. Summariesand Perspectives