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Epstein and Axtell’s Sugarscape: Agent-Based Social Simulation as a Computational Laboratory

Joshua Epstein and Robert Axtell's Sugarscape showed how simple heterogeneous agents on a resource landscape could generate wealth inequality, trade, culture, conflict, and other social patterns.

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