Böcker i Routledge Advances in Experimental and Computable Economics-serien

Computational intelligence, a sub-branch of artificial intelligence, is a field which draws on the natural world and adaptive mechanisms in order to study behaviour in changing complex environments. This book provides an interdisciplinary view of current technological advances and challenges concerning the application of computational intelligence techniques to financial time-series forecasting, trading and investment.

This user-friendly textbook gives an introduction to the world of experimental economics. The book begins with an exploration of the history of experimental economics before moving on to describing how to set up an economics emperiment and surveying selected applications and methods.

The economics of search is a prominent component of economic theory, and it has a richness and elegance that underpins a host of practical applications. This book presents a comprehensive overview of the economic theory of search, from the classical model of job search formulated to the developments in equilibrium models of search.

A monograph that examines the domain of classical political economy using the methodologies developed in by the discipline of econo-physics and by computing science. It examines basic feature of economic life - production - and asks what it is about physical laws that allows production to take place.

Most of us would accept that recent large economic fluctuations have been caused by crashes of speculative bubbles in asset markets but the reasons why bubbles frequently occur and why they collapse are not always well understood. The book provides a new theoretical explanation of bubbles and crashes to help deepen our understanding of the mechanism of bubbles and subsequent crashes.

Written by the author who is an expert on computable economics, this book includes essays and a chapter on computability and complexity.

Develops a framework for the analysis of scientific experimentation and applies it to the experimental field of economics. This book articulates the products of experimentation and analyses scientific experimentation incorporating both the 'material' and the 'social' dimensions of knowledge production.