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THE CEN TER ON SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DY NAMICS
Dr. Joshua M. Epstein
Joshua M. Epstein is Director of the Center on Social and Economic Dynamics Program, Senior
Fellow in Economic Studies at The Brookings Institution, and a member of the External Faculty
of the Santa Fe Institute. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from MIT and is a member of the
New York Academy of Sciences. He is also a member of the Editorial Boards of the journal
Complexity, and of the Princeton University Press Studies in Complexity book series. His primary
research interest is in the modeling of complex social, economic, and biological systems using
agent-based computational models and nonlinear dynamical systems. He has taught
computational and mathematical modeling at Princeton and the Santa Fe Institute Summer
School. He has published widely in the modeling area, including recent articles on the dynamics
of civil violence, the demography of the Anasazi (both in the Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences) and the epidemiology of smallpox (in the American Journal of
Epidemiology). His latest book, Generative Social Science: Studies in Agent-Based
Computational Modeling was recently published by the Princeton University Press. Additionally,
he has authored or co-authored several books including: Growing Artificial Societies: Social
Science From the Bottom Up, with Robert Axtell (MIT Press/Brookings Institution, 1996);
Nonlinear Dynamics, Mathematical Biology, and Social Science (the Santa Fe Institute/Addison-
Wesley, 1997); Strategy and Force Planning: The Case of the Persian Gulf (Brookings
Institution, 1987) and Conventional Force Reductions: A Dynamic Assessment (Brookings
Institution, 1990).