Human Development Dynamics: An Agent Based Simulation of Adaptive Heterogeneous Games and Social Systems

8 Pages Posted: 28 Aug 2014

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Zining Yang

Claremont Colleges - Claremont Graduate University

Date Written: 2014

Abstract

In the context of modernization and development, the complex adaptive systems framework can help address the coupling of macro social constraint and opportunity with individual agency. Combining system dynamics and agent based modeling, we formalize the Human Development (HD) perspective with a system of asymmetric, coupled nonlinear equations empirically validated from World Values Survey (WVS) data, capturing the core qualitative logic of HD theory. Using a simple evolutionary game approach, we fuse endogenously derived individual socio-economic attribute changes with Prisoner’s Dilemma spatial intra-societal economic transactions. We then explore a new human development dynamics (HDD) model behavior via quasi-global simulation methods to explore economic development, cultural plasticity, social and political change

Suggested Citation

Yang, Zining, Human Development Dynamics: An Agent Based Simulation of Adaptive Heterogeneous Games and Social Systems (2014). APSA 2014 Annual Meeting Paper, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2454406

Zining Yang (Contact Author)

Claremont Colleges - Claremont Graduate University ( email )

150 E. Tenth Street
Claremont, CA 91711
United States

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