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Acknowledgement
We thank Alan Kirman and the participants to the complexity in real-world practices : reshaping the relationships , Satellite Meeting at the ECCS 2014 September 25 , 2014 , Lucca , for precious comments and suggestions . The usual disclaimer applies .
Endnotes
1
See , for instance , and Watts and Strogatz ( 1998 ) on the formation of small world networks . Another limitation of their model is that it cannot grow a network from scratch .
2
On the topic see the pioneering papers of Aumann and Myerson ( 1988 ), Roth and Sotomayor ( 1989 ), and Jackson and Wolinski ( 1996 ).
3 recipeWorld is currently a prototype in NetLogo . A previous implementation of the recipe idea ( without the network side ) already exists in Java Swarm ; it is at http :// web . econ . unito . it / terna / jes /. A new version in under development in SLAPP ( Swarm-Like Agent Protocol in Python ); SLAPP is at http :// eco83 . econ . unito . it / terna / slapp /.
4
The term recipe is typical of industrial economics . A recipe contains data about the properties of actions ( e . g . quantity ) and their timing ( e . g . parallel or sequential ) ( Terna 2010 , p . 250 ); see also http :// web . econ . unito . it / terna / jes /.
5
Calculations are made using the new NW NetLogo extension . https :// github . com / NetLogo / NW-Extension .
6
The idea of using the technique of the recipes to wire a network of agents can be found also in Jesi and Fioretti ( 2012 ) and it is implemented in the related code on line at http :// aesop-acp . sourceforge . net .
7
The first work that we have read on the ( D ) to ( C ) process is the Ph . D . thesis of Simone Gabbriellini ( 2009 ).
8
For an interesting survey of policymakers ’ statements that support this view see Beinhocker
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