Complexity, organization, and Stuart Kauffman's The Origins of Order

Westhoff, Frank; Yarbrough, Beth V.; Yarbrough, Robert M.

doi:10.1016/0167-2681(95)00049-6

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“…25. See Posner (1980Posner ( , 1981Posner ( , 1986Posner ( /2002Posner ( , 2001, , Barzel (1989Barzel ( , 2000Barzel ( , 2002, Pryor (1977), Westhoff et al (1996), and Yarbrough & Yarbrough (1992, 2003a. 26.…”

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Teaching Bioeconomics

Yarbrough

2005

J Bioecon

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Bioeconomics is a relatively young field that uses an expanded microeconomics to examine animal behavior, human behavior, and animal and human social institutions. A voluminous literature is rapidly accumulating. There are as yet no standard textbooks, but there are several excellent books and/or articles that can be used in combination with videos and other aids to make a course that students will enjoy and that teachers can use to advance the frontiers of scholarship in economics and biology. Copyright Springer 2005altruism, conflict, cooperation, evolution, game theory, institutions, rationality,

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“…Dennett (1995) provides the philosophical background. Useful background sources include Langton et al (1992), Kauffman (1993), and Westhoff et al (1996). • Leigh Tesfatsion put together a wealth of material for an agent-based computational economics course.…”

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Teaching Bioeconomics

Yarbrough

2005

J Bioecon

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“…They assume more or less rugged landscapes and investigate how different decompositions of organizations 1 See also Frenken (2006a,b) for this distinction between decomposability and near decomposability. 2 Westhoff et al (1996) were among the first and gave an elaborate explanation of how NK models can be used to depict different degrees of decentralization in economic organizations. 3 Westhoff et al (1996), Garrido (2004), Carlisle and McMillan (2006) and Barr and Hanaki (2007).…”

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“…2 Westhoff et al (1996) were among the first and gave an elaborate explanation of how NK models can be used to depict different degrees of decentralization in economic organizations. 3 Westhoff et al (1996), Garrido (2004), Carlisle and McMillan (2006) and Barr and Hanaki (2007). 4 Gavetti et al (2005), Rivkin and Siggelkow (2006) and Siggelkow and Rivkin (2006).…”

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Searching NK Fitness Landscapes: On the Trade Off Between Speed and Quality in Complex Problem Solving

Geisendorf

2009

Comput Econ

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“…In recent years, social scientists have adopted fitness landscapes to model human organizations and artifactsfirms [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21], technologies [22][23][24][25][26], economies [12], and political systems [27] inter alia. The seminal work of Kauffman and his colleagues [3][4][5]7] has proven especially popular among social scientists.…”

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confidence: 99%