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Science 9 November 2007:
Vol. 318. no. 5852, pp. 918 - 919
DOI: 10.1126/science.1142510
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SOCIAL SCIENCES:
Arguing for Computational Power

Daniel Diermeier

Generative Social Science
Studies in Agent-Based Computational Modeling
by Joshua M. Epstein
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2006. 378 pp. plus CD. $49.50, £29.95. ISBN 9780691125473. Princeton Studies in Complexity.
This collection of papers by Epstein and his collaborators is presented as an argument that the best way to explain social science phenomena is to model them.
The reviewer is at the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems and the Kellogg School of Management, 2001 Sheridan Road, Leverone Hall 585, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208-2009, USA. E-mail: d-diermeier{at}kellogg.northwestern.edu

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