Michael D. Makowsky, Ph.D.
I can be contacted at mmakowsk at gmu dot edu
Vitae
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here for my C.V.
Published
and Forthcoming Refereed Journal Articles
Determinants
of Traffic Citations: Political Economy at Any Speed with
Thomas Stratmann
American Economic Review, Forthcoming
From
Scholarly Idea to Budgetary Institution: The Emergence of Cost-Benefit
Analysis with Richard E. Wagner
Constitutional Political Economy, Forthcoming
Accidental
Atheists: An Agent-based Model of Religious Regionalism with
Laurence R.
Iannaccone
Journal for the
Scientific Study of Religion, March 2007, Volume 46 (1), pages
1–16
An
Agent-Based Model of Mortality Shocks, Intergenerational Effects, and
Urban
Crime
Journal
of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, March 2006, Volume 9
Issue 2
Papers Under Review /
Working Papers
Reducing Religious
Extremism: A Model of Religious Populations and Policy
Innovation,
Price Dispersion, and Emergent Increasing Returns to Scale
with David Levy
Human Navigational
Heuristics in Solving the Euclidean Travelling Salesman Problem
with Tamas Makany
Book Reviews
REVIEW:
Social Dynamics
Edited by H. Peyton Young and Steven N. Durlauf
Journal of
Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, June 2005 Volume 8, Issue
3
Presentations
MARS
and Religious Regionalism - as presented at the Third
Annual Conference on Religion, Economics and Culture
Modeling
Religious Extremism - as presented at the Meeting of
the Society for Economic Science
with Heterogeneous Interacting
Agents
Models
The applets requires
Java 1.4.1 or higher to run. They will not run on
Windows 95 or Mac OS 8 or 9. Mac users must have OS X 10.2.6 or higher
and use
a browser that supports Java 1.4 applets (Safari works, IE does not).
On other
operating systems, you may obtain the latest Java plugin from Sun's Java
site.
Urban Crime
(CAMSIM)
Religious
Regionalism
(MARS) with
Laurence R.
Iannaccone
- A preliminary user guide
to the model is available here.
* This a sampling of my Netlogo
models only . If you are interested in my java models, please email me
and I will be happy to honor your
request.
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(brief) Biography
I am a former
investment
pundit and public school teacher with a BA in biology
and economics from the University of Virginia. The logical next step
was graduate studies, leading to a a Ph. D. in
economics at George Mason University. My research to date focuses
on complex social phenomena, such as religious regionalism,
extremism, and
urban crime, using agent-based computational models. I also pursue
more
traditional applied microeconomic interests in public finance, local
political economy, and price dispersion amidst increasing returns to
scale. More importantly, I am a competent deck hockey goalie with a
solid glove hand and a surprising capacity to get my pads to the low
corners, albeit one who does (occasionally) wander off his
angle.
The
Mason cluster does not support simple hit counters, but if it did I
assure you
that the number would be very large and comprised of many digits.
This page is maintained, poorly, by
Michael Makowsky