本书介绍：
陈平等主编的《罗德里奇复杂经济学国际手册》(Routledge International Handbook of Complexity Economics)于2024年11月29日在英国出版。全书共37章，808页。探讨了复杂科学的发展历史与早期研究议题，并将其应用于当代全球性问题的研究和讨论。
本书汇聚了众多国际知名学者，对复杂经济学的研究现状进行了深入探讨，展现了其在应对21世纪多重挑战时所能提供的新颖视角与重要洞见。复杂科学的起源可追溯到1899年，亨利·庞加莱（Henri Poincaré）证明了三体问题没有解析解。复杂经济学的研究则在20世纪80年代由布鲁塞尔-奥斯汀学派率先开创并推动。此后，复杂经济学经历了多次重要理论与方法的变革：从摒弃线性简化模型，到引入物理学算法，再到发展演化经济学与大数据分析方法。本书系统地阐述了复杂经济学的基本原理与研究方法，并对其广泛应用领域进行了详尽的梳理，包括生产力研究、农业经济学和货币经济学等。此外，本书还重点探讨了当前全球性挑战，如气候变化、流行病传播和经济不平等等问题，并分析了复杂经济学在这些议题中的独特贡献。书末以复杂政治经济学及相关政策研究的综述结尾。
作为主流经济学的有力替代方案，本书是异端经济学、经济理论及经济物理学等领域高年级学生、研究人员及经济学家的重要参考文献。
以下是本书的英文目录、评论等信息。
https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-International-Handbook-of-Complexity-Economics/Chen-Elsner-Pyka/p/book/9780367634216
1st Edition
Routledge International Handbook of Complexity Economics
Edited By Ping Chen, Wolfram Elsner, Andreas Pyka
Copyright 2025
ISBN 9780367634216
766 Pages 153 B/W Illustrations
Published November 29, 2024 by Routledge
Table of Contents
The Complexity of Complexity Economics, Its History and Interdisciplinarity and Its Diverse Perspectives and Future: Introduction
Ping Chen, Wolfram Elsner and Andreas Pyka
PART I Basics and Methods in Complexity Economics
I.1 Basics
1 Stairway to Complexity
Mauro Gallegati and Alan Kirman
2 Aspects of Discrete and Continuous Complexity Theories
K. Vela Velupillai
3 Knowledge Is Non‑fungible
César A. Hidalgo
4 What Are Reflexive Economic Agents? Position‑adjustment, SLAM, and Self‑Organization
John B. Davis
5 Complexity, Coevolution, and the Economy
Pier Paolo Saviotti
6 Complexity Economics: History, Issues, and Methods
Ping Chen
I.2 Methods
7 Some Thoughts on Agent‑Based Modeling and the Role of Computation in Economics
W. Brian Arthur
8 Economic Complexity in the Real World
James K. Galbraith
9 Complexity Science in the Application of Big Data Economics
Linyuan Lü, Shuqi Xu and Xu Na
10 Agent‑Based Modelling and Machine Learning: A New Paradigm for Complexity Economics and Sustainability Transitions?
Kristina Bogner, Matthias Müller, Johannes Dahlke, Bernd Ebersberger and Thomas Berger
11 The Resilience of a Complex Network: Methods and Applications
Roy Cerqueti, Matteo Cinelli, Giovanna Ferraro and Antonio Iovanella
12 Exploration of the Parameter Space in Macroeconomic Models
Karl Naumann‑Woleske, Max Sina Knicker, Michael Benzaquen and Jean‑Philippe Bouchaud
13 Stock‑Flow‑Consistent Macroeconomic Dynamics in Continuous Time
Gaël Giraud and Paul Valcke
PART II Domains and Major Challenges
II.1 Domains
14.1 Monetary Economics from Econophysics Perspective
Victor M. Yakovenko
14.2 Statistical Physics Perspective on Economic Inequality
Victor M. Yakovenko
15 Price Theory in a Complex and Evolving Economy
Harry Bloch and Stan Metcalfe
16 Complexity and Productivity: The Task Approach
Roger A. McCain
17 From Economic Chaos to Viable Markets: The Biophysics Foundation of Smith’s Theory on the Division of Labor and Schumpeter’s Wave Theory of Business Cycles
Ping Chen
18 The Evolution of Innovation
Petra Ahrweiler
19 Agriculture as a Social‑Ecological System
Thomas Berger
20 Network Complexity and Financial Behavior: Volume Distribution over Price in Financial Market
Bing‑Hong Wang and Leilei Shi
21 Trading Psychology and Market Resilience: From Brownian Motion to Birth–Death Process in Financial Dynamics
Y.N. Tang
22 Complex World Money: A Different Sign System of Global Social Value Waits at the Doors
Hardy Hanappi
23 The European Union as a Complex System in Times of Crisis
Éva Kuruczleki, Anita Pelle and Marcell Zoltán Végh
II.2 New Challenges
24 Socio‑Economic Implications of the Digital Revolution
Dirk Helbing and Carina I. Hausladen
25 Agent‑Based Macroeconomics of Climate and Digital Transformations
Marcello Nieddu, Marco Raberto and Silvano Cincotti
26 Economic Impacts of Natural Hazards and Complexity Science: A Critical Review
Matteo Coronese and Davide Luzzati
27 Climate Change from the Perspective of Complexity Economics
Michael W.M. Roos
28 Epidemics in Modern Economies
Torsten Heinrich
29 A Biophysical Approach to Production Theory
Jing Chen and James K. Galbraith
30 Digital Foundations of Evolvable Genomic Intelligence and Human Proteanism: Complexity with Novelty Production beyond Bounded Rationality
Sheri M. Markose
31 Economic Complexity and Inequality at the National and Regional Levels
Dominik Hartmann and Flávio L. Pinheiro
PART III Political Economy and Complexity Policy
III.1 Complexity Political Economy
32 An Agenda for Complex Systems Research in Political Economy
Hilton L. Root
33 Planetary‑Scale Computation, Political Economic Complexity and Hegemony
Manuel Scholz‑Wackerle
34 Potential for Mutual Enrichment? Confronting Marxian Economics and Complexity Economics
Frank Beckenbach
III.2 Complexity Policy
35 Using Data‑Driven Systems Mapping to Contextualise Complexity Economics Insights
Fernanda Senra de Moura and Pete Barbrook‑Johnson
36 The Knowledge Complexity of the European Metropolitan Areas: Selecting and Clustering Their Hidden Features
Carlo Bottai and Martina Iori
37 A Complexity View on the Future of Work: Meta‑modelling Exploration of the Multi‑sector K+S Agent‑Based Model
Giovanni Dosi, Marcelo C. Pereira, Andrea Roventini and Maria Enrica Virgillito
Editor(s)
Biography
Ping Chen is Professor of Finance at the National School of Development, Peking University, Beijing, and a Research Fellow at the China Institute, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. Ping holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Texas at Austin, USA. Their research includes economic color chaos, birth–death process for financial markets, theory of metabolic growth and unified theory of complexity economics.
Wolfram Elsner is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Bremen, Germany, since 1995. He managed the Editor Forum for Social Economics from 2012 to 2018. Wolfram was President of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE) in 2012–2016 and Editor-in-Chief of the Review of Evolutionary Political Economy (REPE) since 2018.
Andreas Pyka holds the chair for innovation economics at the University of Hohenheim. Currently, his research areas are knowledge-driven developments and transformation of economic systems with a particular emphasis on the knowledge-based bioeconomy and the transformation of economic systems towards sustainability.
Critics' Reviews
The complexity economics, based on physical algorithms and statistics to analyze economic mass data and time-series, provides an alternative paradigm to the overly-simplified mainstream rationality assumption-based Neoclassical approach for understanding macro growth, structural transformation, climate change, financial crises, trade wars and other real-world phenomena. This Handbook collects recent progresses and new insights by authors in this new discipline. I recommend the book to scholars who are interested in this new approach.
Justin Yifu Lin
Professor and Dean, Institute of New Structural Economics, Peking University, China
Former Chief Economist, the World Bank
The economic system is a supremely complex one. The traditional approach to understanding it has been to reduce complexities to simple rules and behaviors, abstracting many features of the real economy. However, thanks to the enormous increases in both the amount of data available and computing power, there is nowadays an alternative approach: the one proposed by complexity economics, a fast-growing field in economic analysis.
The Handbook of Complexity Economics provides a thorough and updated vision of this very promising field and will surely encourage many scholars to deepen research in this area.
Victor A. Beker
Professor of Economics, University of Belgrano and University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Former Associate Editor of Journal of Behavior and Organization
Timely and compact one-volume from a set of economists uniquely positioned to contribute about complexity. The result is an up-to-date, integrated, compelling, canonical guide-book on the contours and contents of an approach that is extremely remunerative for theory as well as actual practice in the 21st century economy. Older and younger generations now have a fresh meeting point from where to breathe new life into the most pressing intellectual and societal challenges of our age.
Sandro Mendonça
Iscte Business School, Portugal
Former communications regulator
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