Modelling Society's Evolutionary Forces

Tim Gooding ()
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Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 2014, vol. 17, issue 3, 3

Abstract: If local circumstances can generate local social trends, it follows that global circumstances can generate global trends. Furthermore, modern global circumstances match the conditions used to create artificial evolutionary systems. If it is possible for evolutionary forces to arise in global society, then it is possible that key forces shaping global society are evolutionary in nature. We can experimentally test for the possibility of evolutionary forces in global society by using a multi-agent simulation. This paper presents a simulation programmed to capture the evolutionary prerequisites observed in global society. Trends arising from this simulation are tested against three known trends and three assumed trends arising from global society. The results from this experiment support the hypothesis that a wealth aggregation evolutionary imperative is shaping key trends in global society.

Keywords: Evolution; Economics; Fitness Test; Evolutionary System; Aggregation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-06-30
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