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Social dimensions of organised crime: modelling the dynamics of extortion rackets
Elsenbroich C., Anzola D., Gilbert N., Springer International Publishing, New York, NY, 2016. 250 pp. Type: Book (978-3-319451-67-1)
Sixteen European-based academics take a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding extortion rackets, such as those of the Sicilian Mafia and German predatory extortion, based upon the Global Dynamics of Extortion Racket Systems (GLO...
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Oct 5 2017
Agent-based modelling in economics
Hamill L., Gilbert N., Wiley Publishing, Chichester, UK, 2016. 256 pp. Type: Book (978-1-118456-07-1)
The social sciences have long been plagued by physics envy. The seductive simplicity of closed-form equations with strong predictive power in dealing with billiard balls, planets, and electrons suggests that we ought to be able to anal...
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Aug 25 2016
Simulating innovation: computer-based tools for rethinking innovation
Watts C., Gilbert N., Edward Elgar Publishing, Incorporated, Northampton, MA, 2014. 291 pp. Type: Book (978-1-849801-60-7)
Classically, science has relied on two main approaches: experimental (focusing on the observation and analysis of data) and theoretical (emphasizing mathematical analysis of the logical consequences of basic axioms). Over the past 50 y...
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Aug 27 2014
Simulation for the social scientist (2nd ed.)
Gilbert N., Troitzsch K., Open University Press, Berkshire, UK, 2005. 312 pp. Type: Book (9780335216000)
Computer simulation is blurring the long-standing distinction between two broad categories of science, based on the relation between theory and data....
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Mar 10 2006
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