However, as Dr Axtell and Dr Epstein added further complexity to their model the story became messier.
ECONOMIST: Social science
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An early example is the sugarscape simulation done in 1995 by Joshua Epstein and Robert Axtell, of the Brookings Institution.
ECONOMIST: Evolutionary economics is surviving, but not thriving
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In one such test Dr Axtell and Dr Epstein have collaborated with George Gumerman, an ar chaeologist from the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico, to model the Anasazi society.