SANTA FE, New Mexico, Dec. 24 (TNSres) -- Santa Fe Institute issued the following news release: Half a century ago, economic research took a little-noticed yet dramatic departure from the study of concepts most people might be familiar with from Econ 101. The field shifted from an almost exclusive focus on market transactions and government policies to include societal interactions for which supply-and-demand models don't work. In a new Economics Letters paper, SFI Professor Samuel Bowles, alo  more

SANTA FE, New Mexico, Dec. 24 (TNSres) -- Santa Fe Institute issued the following research news brief on Dec. 23, 2024: * * * Extraterrestrial and artificial life have long captivated the human mind. Knowing only the building blocks of our own biosphere, can we predict how life may exist on other planets? What factors will rein in the Frankensteinian life forms we hope to build in laboratories here on Earth? A paper in Interface Focus co-authored by several SFI researchers takes these questio  more