Publications

Last updated: March 2024

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Devereaux, A., Koppl, R., Kauffman, S. (accepted). Creative evolution in economics. Journal of Evolutionary Economics. Available at: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4324130

Devereaux, A. (accepted). Costs of choice: reformulating price theory without heroic assumptions. Public Choice. Available at: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4451750

Koppl, R., Gatti, R., Devereaux, A., Fath, B., Herriott, J., Hordijk, W., Kauffman, S., Ulanowicz, R., Valverde, S. (2023). Explaining Technology (Elements in Evolutionary Economics). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781009386289. https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/explaining-technology/35B60E962727A42ABAB78D33CDE76B7C

Devereaux, A. (2021), The digital Wild West: on social entrepreneurship in extended reality. Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, Vol. 10 No. 2, pp. 198-217. https://doi.org/10.1108/JEPP-03-2019-0018

Murphy, J., Devereaux, A., Goodman, N., & Koppl, R. (2021). Expert Failure and Pandemics: On Adapting to Life With Pandemics. Cosmos + Taxis, 9(5+6), 9-17.

Goodman, N., Coyne, C., & Devereaux, A. N. (2021). Infectious diseases and government growth. The Independent Review, 25(4). (online version)

Klein, D. B., Briggeman, J., Davis, W. L., & Devereaux, A. (2021). Are So-Called Normative Statements Practically the Same as Suitably Formulated So-Called Positive Statements? Evidence from a Survey of Economics Professors. Cosmos + Taxis, 9(1+2), 70-89. (SSRN version)

Devereaux, A. N., & Peng, L. (2020). Give us a little social credit: To design or to discover personal ratings in the era of Big Data. Journal of Institutional Economics, 1-19. doi:10.1017/S1744137419000754 (published version)

Devereaux, A. N., & Wagner, R. E. (2020). Contrasting visions for macroeconomic theory: DSGE and OEE. The American Economist, 65(1), 28-50. (published version)

Devereaux, A. (2019). The Augmented Commons: How Augmented Reality Aids Agile Self-Organization. Journal of Private Enterprise, 34(2), 81-101. (SSRN version)

Devereaux, A. N. (2019). The nudge wars: A modern socialist calculation debate. The Review of Austrian Economics, 32(2), 139-158. (Springer Online version)

Devereaux, A. N. (2019). Approaching the Singularity Behind the Veil of Incomputability: On Algorithmic Governance, the Economist-as-Expert, and the Piecemeal Circumnavigation of the Administrative State. Cosmos & Taxis, 7(1+2), 19-29. (published version)

Nussey, A. (2010). “Outer Median and Probabilistic Cellular Automata on Network Topologies.” Complex Systems, Volume 18, Issue 4. (online)

Book Chapters and Book Reviews

Devereaux, A. N. (accepted). “Exiting ergodicity.” In Alston, E. (ed), Handbook of Institutions & Complexity. Forthcoming.

Devereaux, A. N. (2023). “Seven Stepping Stones to a Systems Theory of Economics.” In: Coyne, Christopher, Boettke, Peter (Eds), Festschrift for Richard E. Wagner (working title). Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Available at: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4007553

Devereaux, A. N. (2020). Book Review: Darcy W.E. Allen, Chris Berg, and Aaron M. Lane, Cryptodemocracy How Blockchain Can Radically Expand Democratic Choice: Lexington Books, Lanham, MD, 2019, 164 pp. The Independent Review.

Devereaux A. (2020) Complex and Entangled Public Policy: Here Be Dragons. In: Hebert D.J., Thomas D.W. (eds) Emergence, Entanglement, and Political Economy. Studies in Public Choice, vol 38. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56088-1_4

Devereaux, A. N., & Wagner, R. E. (2018). “Emergence, Equilibrium, and Agent-Based Modeling: Updating James Buchanan’s Democratic Political Economy.” In James M. Buchanan (pp. 109-129). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.

Devereaux, A. N. (2016). Book Review: David Colander and Roland Kupers, Complexity and the Art of Public Policy: Solving Society’s Problems from the Bottom Up: Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2016, 320 pp, USD 22.95 (cloth). Public Choice.

Dissertation

  • Devereaux, A. (2020). SYNECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS THEORY: AN ALTERNATIVE FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC INQUIRY (Doctoral dissertation, George Mason University). (online)

Selected Applications

  • “The Formation of Transactive Memory Systems,” an agent-based model of the formation of who-knows-what work team networks. NetLogo. (2016) (zip file)
  • “Schelling Segregation on Networks” (2016) (zip file)
  • “The City as an Ecology of Plans,” an agent-based model developed for the Santa Fe Institute Complexity Science Summer School. NetLogo. (2016) (zip file)
  • “A Simple Model of Entrepreneurship,” an agent-based model about marketing, getting customers, and transaction costs. NetLogo. (2014) (zip file)
  • 50+ complex systems Demonstrations in Mathematica, published between 2008 and 2013