Abstract

CASTANEDA, Gonzalo. “Sociomática”: el estudio de los sistemas adaptables complejos en el entorno socioeconómico. El trimestre econ [online]. 2009, vol.76, n.301, pp.5-64.  Epub Nov 20, 2020. ISSN 2448-718X.

This paper presents a research program that links complexity theory with the study of socioeconomic systems. This approach of the evolutionary paradigm is referred to as sociomatics since it covers different disciplines in the social sciences and makes use of computers to simulate the behavior and interaction of heterogeneous agents. The central body of sociomatics consists of a meta-theory that establishes the premises of human behavior (agency) and the form this behavior is conditioned by a process of social embeddedness (structure). Likewise, it is asserted that models based on agents allow describing different topologies of social interaction which, in turn, make possible to characterize the co-evolution of endogenous variables in the economic, social and political arenas, and between these superficial arenas and the socio-cultural substratum.

Keywords : teoría de la complejidad; simulación con agentes; socioeconomía evolutiva.