Micro-Macro Links and Microfoundations in Sociology

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Review '...taken as a whole, the book richly illustrates techniques and data suitable for representing "agent models", interaction processes (perhaps under varying degrees of experimental control) and the potential for generating "rich" (rather than simple aggregate) macro patterns.'-Edmund Chattoe-Brown, University of Leicester, in the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, vol 15, no 2 About the Author Vincent Buskens is professor of theoretical sociology at the Department of Sociology/ICS, Utrecht University, The Netherlands and professor of Empirical Legal Studies at the Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. His main research areas are theoretical sociology, game theory, social networks, mathematical sociology, methods of empirical social science research. Werner Raub is professor of theoretical sociology at the Department of Sociology/ICS, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. His main research areas are theoretical sociology, organization theory and economic sociology, mathematical sociology, experiments and the use of complementary research designs in the social sciences, sociological applications of neuroscience. Marcel Van Assen is assistant professor at the Department of Methodology and Statistics, Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Tilburg University, The Netherlands. His research interests include mathematical sociology, mathematical psychology, rational choice sociology, social networks, and statistics.