Agent-Based Modeling’s Open Methodology Approach: Simulation, Reflexivity, and Abduction

This paper argues that agent-based modeling’s innovations in method developed in terms of simulation techniques also involve an improvement in economic methodology. It shows how Epstein’s generative science conception can be seen as departing from conventional methodological reasoning, and employs w...

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Main Author: John B. Davis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association Œconomia 2018-12-01
Series:Œconomia
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/4402