The social mechanism of public good provision : analytically researching social dilemmas with empirically founded agent based models

This work puts into close relationship the approach of Analytical Sociology, characterised by a search for explanatory social mechanisms, and the tools of Complexity Science, particularly useful for studying social systems characterised by non-linearity and out of equilibrium dynamics. It starts by...

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Main Author: Boero, Riccardo
Published: University of Surrey 2007
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.441729