Economics With Heterogeneous Interacting Agents: A Practical Guide to Agent-Based ModelingThis book offers a practical guide to agent based economic modeling, adopting a learning by doing approach to help the reader master the fundamental tools needed to create and analyze agent based models. After providing them with a basic toolkit for agent based modeling, it presents and discusses didactic models of real financial and economic systems in detail. While stressing the main features and advantages of the bottom up perspective inherent to