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Economic interactions that are beyond simulation

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  • Shaun Gallagher

    (University of Memphis
    University of Wollongong)

  • Antonio Mastrogiorgio

    (John Cabot University)

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In this paper, we argue that not all economic interactions can be simulated. Specific types of interactions, instantiated in and instantiating of institutional structures, are embodied in ways that do not admit entailing laws and cannot be expressed in a computational model. Our arguments have two implications: (i) zero intelligence is not merely a computational phenomenon but requires an “embodied” coupling with the environment (theoretical implication); and (ii) some interactions, on which collective phenomena are based, are unprestatable and generate emerging phenomena which cannot be entailed by computation (methodological implication).

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  • Shaun Gallagher & Antonio Mastrogiorgio, 2024. "Economic interactions that are beyond simulation," Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination, Springer;Society for Economic Science with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents, vol. 19(3), pages 553-577, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:jeicoo:v:19:y:2024:i:3:d:10.1007_s11403-024-00410-6
    DOI: 10.1007/s11403-024-00410-6
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