TY - BOOK ID - 7098341 TI - Complex economics : individual and collective rationality PY - 2010 SN - 0415568552 9780415568555 9780203847497 9780415594240 0415594243 1136941673 9786612781544 0203847490 1282781545 9781136941634 9781136941672 9781136941689 PB - New York, NY : Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - Economics KW - Economics. KW - Economic theory KW - Political economy KW - Social sciences KW - Economic man KW - Social sciences. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7098341 AB - The economic crisis is also a crisis for economic theory. Most analyses of the evolution of the crisis invoke three themes, contagion, networks and trust, yet none of these play a major role in standard macroeconomic models. What is needed is a theory in which these aspects are central. The direct interaction between individuals, firms and banks does not simply produce imperfections in the functioning of the economy but is the very basis of the functioning of a modern economy. This book suggests a way of analysing the economy which takes this point of view.The economy should b ER -