Browse Research and Commentary

Changing How We Discount to Make Public Policy More Responsive To Citizens’ Time Preferences

March 2006, Robert Axtell and Gregory J. McRae

Social Influences and Smoking Behavior

February 2006, Robert Axtell, Steven Durlauf, Joshua M. Epstein, Ross A. Hammond, Ben Klemens, Jon Parker, Zirui Song, Thomas Valente and H. Peyton. Young

Firm Sizes: Facts, Formulae and Fantasies

February 2006, Robert Axtell

Non-Cooperative Dynamics of Multi-Agent Teams

April 2002, Robert Axtell

Why Agents? On the Varied Motivations for Agent Computing in the Social Sciences

November 2000, Robert Axtell

The Emergence of Classes in a Multi-Agent Bargaining Model

February 2000, H. Peyton. Young, Joshua M. Epstein and Robert Axtell

The Emergence of Firms in a Population of Agents: Local Increasing Returns, Unstable Nash Equilibria, and Power Law Size Distributions

June 1999, Robert Axtell

Coordination in Transient Social Networks: An Agent-Based Computational Model on the Timing of Retirement

May 1999, Joshua M. Epstein and Robert Axtell

Growing Artificial Societies

Social Science From the Bottom Up

1996, Joshua M. Epstein and Robert Axtell