Introduction to Human Ecology:

The Dynamics, Distribution, and Redistribution of Wealth

Links

People

• Frank Ackerman. Tufts University.
• Sam Bowles. University of Massachusetts and the Santa Fe Institute.
• Herb Gintis. University of Massachusetts and the Santa Fe Institute
• Erik Olin Wright. Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin - Madison.

Research Networks, Institutes, etc.

• Network on the Effects of Inequality on Economic Performance, Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley.
• Real Utopias Project, based at the Havens Center at the University of Wisconsin.
• Norms and Preferences Network, at the University of Massachusetts.
• University of Texis Inequality Project.
• http://www.inequality.org. News, information, and expertise on the divide in income, wealth, and health.
• Institute for Research on Poverty, at the Univeristy of Wisconsin, Madison. Has an enormous number of links and articles.

Other courses on wealth and inequality

• Economics 122 at Pomona College taught by Cecilia Conrad.
• Social Inequality at Northern Illinois University, taught by Kristen Myers.
• Enduring Inequality at Vassar College, taught by Kathy Kaufman.
• Wage Inequality: Facts and Theories, at Harvard University, taught by Ethan Kaplan.
• The Economics of Inequality and Discrimination at Colorado University, taught by Terra McKinnish.
• Inequality: Current trends and explanations. Taught by Martina Morris at the University of Washington.

Shelling Model and Related Links

• Thomas Schelling
• Shelling Model Software. Simulator that runs on windows machines.
• SchellingGis. Java-based Schelling model.
• Basic Geometry May Explain Segregations Intractability. A New York Times article from 1998.
• Segregation Simulator from the "cybertimes" of the New York Times.
• Schelling's Spatial Proximity Model of Segregation Revisited, an article by two economists, Romans Pancs and Nicolaas Vriend.
• Discrete Segregation: An Extention of Schelling's Model of Segregation, by Kristian Jonsson and Per Skoglund
• A simulation and modeling course from MIT's teacher education program.
• A course in agent-based simulation from Paul Johnson at the University of Kansas department of political science.
• Neighborhoods, Suburbs, and Cities: Seminar in Urban Life and Urban Politics, a course by Gerald Gamm at the University of Rochester.
• The Role of 'Vision' in Racial Neighborhood Segregation: Revisiting the Celebrated Schelling Model, Alexander J. Laurie and Narendra K. Jaggi, Illinois Wesleyan University.
• Emergence, a computer science course from Bryn Mawr College. See especially A Thin Line Between Red and Green: Emerging Patterns in Group Preference an Exploration at Bryn Mawr College, by Lindsay Marie.
• Brian Krauth. An economist at Simon Fraser University with a number of interesting papers.

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