Reference Books

From Quantitative Politics

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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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.)

• 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

for Life on Earth

• • • 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