On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Leigh Tesfatsion
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19 December 2011
Edmund ---
RE: Disciplinary Penetration (Economics)
Agent-based modeling is far from having penetrated mainstream economics in any routine way.
However, papers stressing Agent-Based Computational Economics (ACE) are now rather regularly appearing in the following well-regarded but specialized ("field") economic journals:
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
Papers stressing ACE have occasionally appeared in the following "premier" economic journals:
American Economic Review (e.g., Holland/Miller, LeBaron/Tesfatsion)
Journal of Monetary Economics (e.g., work on GAs by Jasmina Arifovic et al.)
Journal of Political Economy (e.g., work on GAs by Jasmina Arifovic et al.)
A volume dedicated to ACE appeared in 2006 in the prestigious Handbooks in Economics Series published by Elsevier.
Leigh Tesfatsion and Kenneth L. Judd, ed. (2006). /Handbook of Computational Economics/, v. 2.,
Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Description <http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bookdescription.cws_home/660847/description#description> & and chapter-preview links. <http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=PublicationURL&_hubEid=1-s2.0-S1574002105X02003&_cid=273377&_pubType=HS&_auth=y&_acct=C000228598&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=e4757b4f65755ed6340a11fee9615200>
Articles favorably recommending agent-based modeling tools for economics (particularly macroeconomics in the wake of the still ongoing financial crisis) have appeared in
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ( Agent-based modeling: Methods and techniques <http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/99/suppl_3/7280>
for simulating human systems <http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/99/suppl_3/7280>. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Academy_of_Sciences>. May 14, 2002. )
Nature ( J. Doyne Farmer andDuncan Foley, Duncan (2009), 'The economy needs agent-based modelling.
' Nature, Vol. 460, No. 7256. (05 August 2009), pp. 685-686,and Mark Buchanan (2009), 'Meltdown modelling. <http://pagesperso-orange.fr/mark.buchanan/nature_economic_modelling.pdf>
Could agent-based computer models prevent another financial crisis? <http://pagesperso-orange.fr/mark.buchanan/nature_economic_modelling.pdf>.' Nature, Vol. 460, No. 7256.
(05 August 2009), pp. 680-682. )
The Economist ( "Agents of change" <http://www.economist.com/node/16636121>. /The Economist/. 22 July 2010)
A rather comprehensive survey of ACE published work is forthcoming in the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control -- see the following:
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http://www.econ.iastate.edu/tesfatsi/ACEHistoricalSurvey.SHCheng2011.pdf
Shu-Heng Chen, *"Varieties of Agents in Agent-Based Computational Economics:
A Historical and an Interdisciplinary Perspective"* <http://www.econ.iastate.edu/tesfatsi/ACEHistoricalSurvey.SHCheng2011.pdf>/Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control/,
2011, to appear. */
Abstract:/* This thoughtful and comprehensive study traces the origins of agent-based computational economics (ACE) through four different gateways: namely, study of market processes; study of cellular automata with fixed rules of behavior; evolution-of-cooperation tournaments with programmed strategies; and experiments with autonomous human-like agents (artificial life).
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See, also, the listings of annotated pointers to published ACE work at the following sites:
ACE: Introductory Materials
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/tesfatsi/aintro.htm
ACE: Research Area Sites
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/tesfatsi/aapplic.htm
ACE Research Area: Agent-Based Macroeconomics
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/tesfatsi/amulmark.htm
Best wishes,
Leigh
2011/12/19 Edmund Chattoe-Brown <[log in to unmask]fm <mailto:edmundchattoebrown@fastmail.fm>>
Dear All,
What are the highest status/best known/most cited journals which have
published ABM/social simulation in your particular social
science? (And
what are the citations?) In Sociology the highest impact journals
give,
for the set of search terms <agent based model simulation> the
following
numbers of "hits" (excluding book reviews, editorials and "front/back
matter"):
American Journal of Sociology 17 (most in one special issue)
American Sociological Review 11
British Journal of Sociology 3
Annual Review of Sociology 23
Global Networks – A Journal of Transnational Affairs 4
Sociology of Health & Illness 3
Journal of Marriage and the Family 1
Economy and Society 49
Social Networks 37
Social Problems 3
However, scanning these quickly, I suspect that many (most?) are
false
positives as it is quite hard to pick a set of search terms that
uniquely identify what we do. (Could we find an unusual word and
always
use it in our papers to help with this!) Looking more carefully
at some
of the cases with fewer hits, two of the three BJS articles are false
positives (the other written by yours truly*), the only example in
Journal of Marriage and the Family is a FP and so on. (I would
have done
more of this but the library computer seems to be acting up.)
I wonder if one thing we could do to promote our research is
simply to
try and get something into journals that haven't had it before
... Would
anyone else like to share this kind of analysis for economics,
management, psychology, criminology, demography? (Who else is there
reading?)
Happy Xmas!
Edmund
* Chattoe, Edmund (2006) 'Using Simulation to Develop and Test
Functionalist Explanations: A Case Study of Dynamic Church
Membership',
British Journal of Sociology, 57(3), September, pp. 379-397.
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