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's arguments about the value of economic methods in Al, although our specific use of economic methods is very different from his. Baum's work (e.g. Hayek [13an0 ID embodies more complex and computationally expensive uses of artificial economics, whereas we believe that in the con- text of a neural-sym

y ratio as the finding of a theory that not only produces the Cobb-Douglas production function, but also gives certain fixed exponents for the Cobb- Douglas function). 122 EFTA00625250 There are however very major problems with this approach. Firstly, real analysis of companies suggests that any mean

l in section 2.2 above. This instability naturally produces a growing cycle of apparent wealth, which is turned into excess capital as predicted by Hayek [Hayek 1931] in Austrian business cycles. But contrary to the Austrians, and in line with research data [Kydland & Prescott 1990], the liquidity or

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any looked awfully appealing to many. The political stability of totalitarian ideologis had a certain placid charm in some quarters. But, Europe was, Hayek argued, walking nothing less than a road back to serfdom. Was man happier, better off, more justly fulfilled by the chaos of a market and democracy o