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Complexity science approach to economic crime

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  • J'anos Kert'esz
  • Johannes Wachs

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In this comment we discuss how complexity science and network science are particularly useful for identifying and describing the hidden traces of economic misbehaviour such as fraud and corruption.

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  • J'anos Kert'esz & Johannes Wachs, 2020. "Complexity science approach to economic crime," Papers 2008.12364, arXiv.org.
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