Memeticists win Nobel Prize for Economics

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    Well, okay, maybe they'd describe themselves as "agent modellers" rather than "memeticists", but basically they were interested in how phenomena like market bubbles etc arise from various investor/seller behaviours related to imperfect knowledge concerning the market status, and the strategies evolved to cope with such a situation.

    The description of their work is at:
    http://www.nobel.se/economics/laureates/2001/ecoadv.pdf
    and also at:
    http://www.nobel.se/economics/laureates/2001/public.html

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