Monthly Archives: October 2005

Agent-Based Computational Economics (Tesfatsion)

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.econ.iastate.edu/tesfatsi/ace.htm Agent-based computational economics (ACE) is the computational study of economic processes modeled as dynamic systems of interacting agents. Here “agent” refers broadly to a bundle of data and behavioral methods representing an entity constituting part … Continue reading

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The Computational Beauty of Nature

Stumbleupon Review of : http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/FLAOH/cbnhtml/home.html Welcome! This is the home page for The Computational Beauty of Nature, affectionately known as “The Fish and Chips Book.” Here, you will find information about the book, source code for simulations involving fractals, chaos, … Continue reading

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Transcript of Economic Forum — One World, One Currency: Destination or Del

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.imf.org/external/np/tr/2000/tr001108.htm One World, One Currency: Destination or Delusion? — Globalisation of currency, essential for a real free market, any system where a few power-players control the presses is just more sham protectionsim.

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PrudentBear.com – The One-Stop Shop for the Bear Case

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.prudentbear.com/archive_comm_article.asp?category=Guest%20Commentary&content_idx=24406 A debt-deflation induced depression would have a dominating influence on the US economy over the next ten years. A crucial factor in the future performance of the US economy is the housing market. A crash … Continue reading

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WHAT IS EVOLUTIONARY WORLD POLITICS

Stumbleupon Review of : http://faculty.washington.edu/modelski/WhatsEWP.htm WHAT IS EVOLUTIONARY WORLD POLITICS? Evolutionary world politics is the employment of evolutionary theory in the study of long-term change in world-wide political arrangements. World-wide political arrangements are those stable patterns of human behavior that … Continue reading

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EVOLUTIONARY WORLD POLITICS HOMEPAGE

Stumbleupon Review of : http://faculty.washington.edu/modelski/ This page is a starting-off point for students, and a resource for specialists, in the ongoing discussions about evolutionary approaches to the study of world politics. The emphasis throughout is on describing, analyzing, and explaining … Continue reading

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Synergy, Cybernetics, and the Evolution of Politics

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.complexsystems.org/publications/scep.html 🙂 The tumultuous political events of the past decade or so have, among other things, compelled political scientists to rethink some of their long established concepts and analytical constructs. One example is “political development,” a … Continue reading

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Amazon.com: The Evolution Explosion: How Humans Cause Rapid Evolutionary Ch

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393020118/ The first thing that Harvard University biology professor Stephen Palumbi wants you to know is that evolution is a fact, not a theory. The second is this: evolution does not require eons and eons to … Continue reading

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Species evolve to the brink of evolution

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.brightsurf.com/news/headlines/view.article.php?ArticleID=20738 A biologist at The University of Texas at Austin has presented a new theory that sheds light on how organisms, including viruses like HIV, rapidly evolve in the face of vaccines and antibiotics. Dr. Lauren … Continue reading

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Harmless virus may hold key to more effective HIV drug discovery

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.brightsurf.com/news/headlines/view.article.php?ArticleID=20737 Interesting article about using ‘phages to model and test responses of broad spectrum HIV combatative drugs.

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