Masanao Aoki creator Aoki Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1998 monographic xv, 288 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Part I. Introduction: 1. Introduction; 2. Simple illustrative and motivating examples; 3. Empirical distributions: statistical laws in macroeconomics; Part II. Modeling Interactions: 4. Modeling interactions I: Jump Markov processes; 5. Modeling interactions II: master equations and field effects; 6. Modeling interactions III: pairwise and multiple-pair interactions; Part III. Hierarchical Dynamics and Critical phenomena: 7. Sluggish dynamics and hierarchical state spaces; 8. Self-organizing and other critical phenomena in economic models; 9. Appendices; Symbol Index; Subject Index. Masanao Aoki Originally published: 1996 Author: Publisher: HB172.5 .A58 0521637694 9780521637695