Socio-economic Dynamics Simulation Study

In recent years, the researches on economic issues worldwide have broken through the traditional quantitative analysis method. It combines mathematics and computer science in order to use software to emulate the running of the whole social economic system. Among which, SWARM is a successful one that was developed by Santa Fe Institute. It provides a set of standard, flexible and reliable software tools to emulate the complex adaptive system, and has been used to do researches on many fields such as physics, chemistry, economy, etc.In this thesis, the author first introduces the theory of complex adaptive system and the principles of SWARM. Then the author applies the advanced economic analysis tool - game theory to build up economic models and writes the Java programs that use the class libraries of SWARM. After successful emulating several simple economic models, the author hopes they can be a good theoretical basis for the latecomers who do more advanced ones.