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	Gilbert, Nigel     Options: All Media Types Journals Proceedings Div Books Whole Books Other Date Reviewed Title Author Publisher Published Date Descending Ascending Date Reviewed     1 - 4 of 4 reviews       Social dimensions of organised crime: modelling the dynamics of extortion rackets Elsenbroich C., Anzola D., Gilbert N., Springer International Publishing, New York, NY, 2016. 250 pp.  Type: Book (978-3-319451-67-1) Sixteen European-based academics take a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding extortion rackets, such as those of the Sicilian Mafia and German predatory extortion, based upon the Global Dynamics of Extortion Racket Systems (GLO...... Oct 5 2017     Agent-based modelling in economics Hamill L., Gilbert N., Wiley Publishing, Chichester, UK, 2016. 256 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-118456-07-1) The social sciences have long been plagued by physics envy. The seductive simplicity of closed-form equations with strong predictive power in dealing with billiard balls, planets, and electrons suggests that we ought to be able to anal...... Aug 25 2016     Simulating innovation: computer-based tools for rethinking innovation Watts C., Gilbert N., Edward Elgar Publishing, Incorporated, Northampton, MA, 2014. 291 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-849801-60-7) Classically, science has relied on two main approaches: experimental (focusing on the observation and analysis of data) and theoretical (emphasizing mathematical analysis of the logical consequences of basic axioms). Over the past 50 y...... Aug 27 2014     Simulation for the social scientist (2nd ed.) Gilbert N., Troitzsch K., Open University Press, Berkshire, UK, 2005. 312 pp.  Type: Book (9780335216000) Computer simulation is blurring the long-standing distinction between two broad categories of science, based on the relation between theory and data....... Mar 10 2006
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