ABSTRACT

Curiously, theorizations and models produced within economics generally assume that any agent may interact with any other. Interactions are thought to take place in a homogeneous space where different agents are uniformly distributed, so in the end the outcome of interactions can be averaged and complex economies populated by multitudes of different agents can be subsumed by the behaviour of a few representative individuals, if not a single one. In this way, the existence of structures is assumed away.