Edited by Philip W. Anderson, Kenneth J. Arrow, and David Pines

Foreword
P. W. Anderson, Kenneth J. Arrow, and David Pines

Introduction and Overview

Introduction and Overview
David Pines

Lectures and Perspectives

Self-Reinforcing Mechanisms in Economics
W. Brian Arthur

Neural Nets for Economicst
Eric B. Baum

Persistent Oscillations and Chaos in Economic Models: Notes for a Survey
Michele Boldrin

Nonlinearity and Complex Dynamics in Economics and Finance
William A. Brock

Can New Approaches to Nonlinear Modeling Improve Economic Forecasts?
J. Doyne Farmer and John J. Sidorowich

The Global Economy as an Adaptive Process
John H. Holland

The Evolution of Economic Webs
Stuart A. Kauffman

Computation and Multiplicity of Economic Equilibria
Timothy J. Kehoe

A Simple Model for Dynamics away from Attractors
Norman Packard

Statistical Mechanics Approaches to Complex Optimization Problems
Richard Palmer

Can Nonlinear Dynamics Help Economists?
David Ruelle

Rational Expectations, Game Theory, and Inflationary Inertia
Mario Henrique Simonsen

Working Group Summaries

Working Group A: Techniques and Webs
J. Guenther, J. Holland, S. Kauffman, T. Kehoe, T. Sargent, and E. Singer

Working Group B: Economic Cycles
K. Arrow, W. Brock, D. Farmer, D. Pines, D. Ruelle, J. Scheinkman, M. Simonsen, and L. Summers

Working Group C: Patterns
P. W. Anderson, W. B. Arthur, E. Baum, M. Boldrin, N. Packard, J. Scheinkman, and L. Summers

Final Plenary Discussion

Final Plenary Discussion
Richard Palmer

Summaries and Perspectives

A Physicist Looks at Economics: An Overview of the Workshop
P. W. Anderson

Workshop on the Economy as an Evolving Complex System: Summary
Kenneth J. Arrow

Research Papers

Learning-By-Doing, International Trade and Growth: A Note
Michele Boldrin and Jose A. Scheinkman

Lyapunov Exponents for Stock Resturns
J.-P. Eckmann, S. Oliffson Kamphorst, D. Ruelle, and J. Scheinkman

Appendix

Summary of Meeting on `International Finances as a Complex System' at the Rancho Encantado, Tesuque, New Mexico, August 6-7, 1986
George A. Cowan and Robert McCormick Adams

Index