Reference Books

''A place to plop suggestions for books. Perhaps organize with the individual content areas?''

North Holland's Handbook Series

 * Handbook of Computational Economics (Vol 1 & 2),
 * http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/handbooks/15740021   (Volume 2 is Catherine Dibble's recommendation for ABMs)
 * Handbook of Game Theory with Economic Applications,
 * http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/handbooks/15740005
 * Handbook of Social Choice and Welfare,
 * http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/handbooks/15740110
 * Handbook of Econometrics,
 * http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/handbooks/15734412
 * Handbook of Statistics (25 volumes!)
 * http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/handbooks/01697161

Numerous Suggestions from C. Dibble

 * Microeconomic Theory and Game Theory
 * Microeconomic Theory
 * Andreu Mas-Colell, Michael D. Whinston, and Jerry R. Green
 * Axiomatic Bargaining Theory with a Variable Number of Agents
 * William Thomson and Terje Lensberg
 * An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change
 * Richard R. Nelson and Sidney G. Winter
 * "Designing Economic Mechanisms"
 * Leonid Hurwicz and Stanley Reiter
 * "Repeated Games and Reputations: Long Run Relationships"
 * George J. Mailath and Larry Samuelson


 * Spatial and/or Evolutionary Game Theory
 * Evolution of the Social Contract
 * Brian Skyrms
 * The Stag Hunt and the Evolution of Social Structure
 * Brian Skyrms
 * Individual Strategy and Social Structure
 * H. Peyton Young
 * "Strategic Learning and Its Limits"
 * H. Peyton Young
 * Evolution and the Theory of Games
 * John Maynard Smith
 * Evolutionary Game Theory
 * Jo:rgen W. Weibull
 * Evolution, Games, and Economic Behavior
 * Fernando Vega-Redondo


 * Diffusion Processes
 * How Hits Happen
 * Winslow Farrell
 * The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
 * Macolm Gladwell (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 2000)
 * Innovation Diffusion as a Spatial Process
 * Torsten Hagerstrand (The original classic on diffusion processes.)

for Life on Earth''
 * Water, Climate, Ecosystem Degradation, and the general Co-Evolution of Human and Ecological Systems
 * Complexity and Ecosystem Management: The Theory and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems
 * Marco A. Janssen, Editor
 * See also Marco's chapter in Leigh Tesfatsion's ACE book
 * Navigating Social-Ecological Systems: Building Resilience for Complexity and Change
 * Fikret Berkes, Johan Golding, and Carl Folke, Editors
 * Linking Social and Ecological Systems: Management Practices and Social Mechanisms for Building Resilience
 * Fikret Berkes and Carl Folke, Editors
 * Panarchy
 * Lance H. Gunderson and C.S. Holling
 * Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: A Framework for Assessment
 * Millenium Ecosystem Assessment
 * Modelling Global Change: The Art of Integrated Assessment Modeling
 * Marco Janssen
 * Silent Spring
 * Rachel Carson
 * When the Rivers Run Dry: Weather--The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-First Century
 * Fred Pearce
 * ''The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means
 * Tim Flannery


 * Inequality
 * The Work of Nations: Preparing Ourselves for 21st-Century Capitalism
 * Robert B. Reich
 * This has my nomination for one of the most important books of the 21st Century. It addresses the driving forces behind inequality, conflict, terrorism, and ecosystem degradation.  This is a longer version of I'll Be Short and is well worth reading.
 * Inequality Reexamined
 * Amartya Sen


 * Complex Systems, Path Dependence, and Lock-In
 * Thomas Schelling
 * Micromotives and Macrobehavior
 * The Strategy of Conflict
 * Increasing Returns and Path Dependence in the Economy
 * W. Brian Arthur (1994)
 * See also his ~1992 paper in Scientific American for an excellent summary.


 * Computational Laboratories, Scientific Method, and Inference
 * Agent-Based Computational Economics
 * Leigh Tesfatsion and Kenneth L. Judd, Editors (2006)
 * See top of this page
 * Also: http://www.econ.iastate.edu/tesfatsi/hbace.htm
 * Agent-Based Computational Demography
 * Francesco C. Billari and Alexia Prskawetz, Editors
 * The Complexity of Cooperation
 * Robert Axelrod