Most of the contributors are scholars of business or economics, but a few represent mathematics, physics, and forensic science. They explore the phenomenon of complexity at the lowest level of interacting heterogeneous agents; a middle level where processes for endogenous reasons fail to converge to a point, a limit cycle, or a simple expansion or contraction; and a high level named here meta-complexity that is moving into new perspectives and techniques. Specific topics include computational and dynamic complexity in economics, bounded rationality and learning in complex markets, on simplicity and macroeconomic complexity, analyzing time series with non-stationary increments, a nonlinear survey of exchange rate dynamics, ecologic-economic systems, and complexity and the history of economic thought. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
