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Robert Axelrod
Mary Ann and Charles R. Walgreen, Jr. Professor for the Study of Human Understanding
Professor, Ford School of Public Policy
Ph.D., Yale
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
4116 Weill Hall
735 South State St.
(734) 763-0099
axe@umich.edu
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Professor Axelrod's principal interests include math models (especially computer simulation), international security affairs, and complexity theory. His main current projects are in emergent properties of social systems (including culture, institutions, and communications), and in the political and social effects of the information revolution.
For more information, including a curriculum vitae and access to selected research papers, see Robert Axelrod's Personal Home Page.
Selected Publications
- Harnessing Complexity: Organizational Implications of a Scientific Frontier with Michael D. Cohen (New York: Free Press, 2000; Paperback edition New York: Basic Books, 2001).
- The Complexity of Cooperation: Agent-Based Models of Competition and Collaboration (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997).
- "Sexual Reproduction as an Adaptation to Resist Parasites," with William Hamilton and Reiko Tanese, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 87 (May 1990), 3566-3573.
- "An Evolutionary Approach to Norms," American Political Science Review, 80 (December 1986), 1095-1111.
- The Evolution of Cooperation (New York: Basic Books, 1984).
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