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The chapter, of particular interest to industrial economists, managers, and business consultants, and also to policy-makers, is about the importance of networks and their links with simulation.
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Terna, P. (2015). Production Organization, Recipes, and Networks, with a Few Steps in Network Analysis. In: Agent-based Models of the Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137339812_5
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