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A brief overview of agent-based computational economics (ACE) isgiven, followed by a synopsis of the articles included in thisspecial issue on ACE and in a companion special issue on ACEscheduled to appear in the Journal of Economic Dynamics andControl.
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Tesfatsion, L. Introduction. Computational Economics 18, 1–8 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1013852626172
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