Roman bazaar or market economy? Explaining tableware distributions through computational modelling

Roman bazaar or market economy? : Explaining tableware distributions through computational modelling

0 km 1000 N How closely integrated were the commercial centres of the Roman world? Were traders aware of supply and demand for goods in other cities, or were communities of traders in cities protectionist and working opportunistically? Widely traded commodities such as terra sigillata tablewares in the Eastern Mediterranean provide an ideal opportunity to explore the economic processes that und...

R&D as a Bazaar Economy

Principles of Neuronal Modelling OR Principles of Computational Neuroscience OR Computational Modelling in Neuroscience

Explaining Stock Market Correlation:

A gravity model, frequently used to explain trade patterns, is used to explain stock market correlations. The main result of the trade literature is that geography matters for goods markets. Physical location and trading costs should be less of an issue in asset markets. However we find that geographical variables still matter when examining equity market linkages. In particular, the number of ...

Emergent biological principles and the computational properties of the universe: Explaining it or explaining it away

PHILOSOPHICAL BACKGROUND T he term emergence is used to describe the appearance of new properties that arise when a system exceeds a certain level of size or complexity, properties that are absent from the constituents of the system. It is a concept often summed up by the phrase that “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts,” and it is a key notion in the burgeoning field of complexity s...