New Approaches to Macroeconomic Modeling : Evolutionary Stochastic Dynamics, Multiple Equilibria, and Externalities as Field Effects (Paperback)

Part I. Introduction: 1. Introduction; 2. Simple illustrative and motivating examples; 3. Empirical distributions: statistical laws in macroeconomics; Part II. Modeling Interactions: 4. Modeling interactions I: Jump Markov processes; 5. Modeling interactions II: master equations and field effects; 6. Modeling interactions III: pairwise and multiple-pair interactions; Part III. Hierarchical Dynamics and Critical phenomena: 7. Sluggish dynamics and hierarchical state spaces; 8. Self-organizing and other critical phenomena in economic models; 9. Appendices; Symbol Index; Subject Index.