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most citedA Simple Combinatorial Model of World Economic History

6 citations · 9 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

math.DS2026

A multi-objective optimization framework for sustainable transitions

Cris R. Hasan, Luigi Cao Pinna, John Crawford +5

Achieving a just and sustainable transition requires the pursuit of multiple social and environmental targets. Two primary barriers impede this process: (1) targets are often in co…

cs.NE2024★ 2 cited

The use of knowledge in open-ended systems

Abigail Devereaux, Roger Koppl

Economists model knowledge use and acquisition as a cause-and-effect calculus associating observations made by a decision-maker about their world with possible underlying causes. K…

econ.GN2023

Bespoke scapegoats: Scientific advisory bodies and blame avoidance in the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond

Roger Koppl, Kira Pronin, Nick Cowen +2

Scholars have not asked why so many governments created ad hoc scientific advisory bodies (ahSABs) to address the Covid-19 pandemic instead of relying on existing public health inf…

q-bio.MN2022★ 1 cited

Emergence of Autocatalytic Sets in a Simple Model of Technological Evolution

Wim Hordijk, Stuart Kauffman

Two alternative views of an economy are combined and studied. The first view is that of technological evolution as a process of combinatorial innovation. Recently a simple mathemat…

econ.GN2018★ 6 cited

A Simple Combinatorial Model of World Economic History

Roger Koppl, Abigail Devereaux, Jim Herriot +1

We use a simple combinatorial model of technological change to explain the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution was a sudden large improvement in technology, which resu…