LINKING AGENT-BASED COMPUTATIONAL ECONOMICS TO

Year 2017, Volume: 13 Issue: 1, 1 - 17, 01.01.2017

M. Oğuz Arslan

https://doi.org/10.17130/ijmeb.20173126260

Abstract

Agent-based computational economics is relatively a new methodology in economics. It is defined as ‘the computational modeling of economic processes including whole economies as open-ended dynamic systems of interacting agents’. Contrary to fundamental assumptions of neoclassical and mainstream approaches, agent-based computational economics assumes that a agents are heterogeneous and bounded rational decision makers in an economy, b an economy is a non-linear, complex and adaptive system. Moreover, these assumptions seem to hold true for Post Keynesian economics to a large extent. Given that, this study attempts to bring out similarities and potential links between these two economic thoughts

Keywords

Economic Methodology, Post Keynesian Economics, Agent-based Computational Economics

LINKING AGENT-BASED COMPUTATIONAL ECONOMICS TO POST KEYNESIAN ECONOMICS

Abstract

Agent-based computational economics is relatively a new methodology in economics. It is defined as ‘the computational modeling of economic processes including whole economies as open-ended dynamic systems of interacting agents’. Contrary to fundamental assumptions of neoclassical and mainstream approaches, agent-based computational economics assumes that a agents are heterogeneous and bounded rational decision makers in an economy, b an economy is a non-linear, complex and adaptive system. Moreover, these assumptions seem to hold true for Post Keynesian economics to a large extent. Given that, this study attempts to bring out similarities and potential links between these two economic thoughts.

Keywords

Ekonomik Metodoloji, Post Keynesyen İktisat, Ajan Tabanlı Hesaplamalı İktisat

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