Filip Lubinski

The Routledge Books has published a very long handbook of 37 contributions by the most excellent experts in complexity economics.

I wrote a concise review about the advantages and disadvantages of such a scale of a publication.

Read it here:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5136264

The book, edited by Ping Chen, Wolfram Elsner, and Andreas Pyka, is an unprecedented enterprise in complexity economics. Coordinating its creation was challenging, and reading its whole fruit is only slightly more manageable. Writing a just but short review of such an opus magnum might be the most difficult of all, and that’s why this one will limit itself to presenting the structure, methods, aims of the book, and the role it might play in the ongoing debates on the future of economic discipline. In the beginning, it’s worth mentioning the importance of the book goes beyond this field as it makes use of various disciplines together constituting the meta-discipline of the complexity science. The Routledge International Handbook of Complexity Economics (RIHCE) comprises thirty-seven contributions, including those from well-established precursors of the discipline and young scholars. Their works, previously published independently, now clearly appear to us as a system of interconnectedness between their research. That might be the most significant advantage of the book. It collects in one place the achievements of various academic and scientific initiatives, helping to realize how their investigations support each other in forming the new research paradigm of complexity economics. It focuses on emergent properties resulting from complex interactions between heterogenous economic agents.