Santa Fe Institute chronicles the rise of agent-based modeling in social science
sebkrier · x · 2026-11-06
The Santa Fe Institute published an interactive story tracing agent-based modeling's rise in social science: a 1988 complexity economics program, the Santa Fe Artificial Stock Market reproducing bubbles and crashes, spread into archaeology, ecology and epidemiology, with runnable interactive models included.
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