Book notes: The End of Theory, by Richard Bookstaber

The End of Theory by Richard Bookstaber

Richard Bookstaber, The End of Theory, Princeton University Press, 2017, 240 pages

Agent-based modelling is starting to be taken seriously by economists. Many who have experimented with it emphasise its value as an accompaniment to the mainstream neoclassical school; see, for instance, the recent paper by Andy Haldane and Arthur Turrell. Richard Bookstaber, by contrast, wants it to sweep aside neoclassical theory, which he believes has failed catastrophically, and take centre stage – hence the

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