Abigail Devereaux

Wichita State University, Department of Economics

Assistant Professor

1845 Fairmount St

Wichita, KS 67260

United States

http://abigaildevereaux.com

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The Augmented Commons: How Augmented Reality Aids Agile Self-Organization

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 17-45
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 24 Apr 2017 Last Revised: 23 Feb 2018
Abigail Devereaux
Wichita State University, Department of Economics
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augmented reality, private governance, polycentrism, public goods, self-organization

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Are So-Called Normative Statements Practically the Same as Suitably Formulated So-Called Positive Statements? Evidence from a Survey of Economics Professors

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 17-33, Cosmos & Taxis, forthcoming
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 10 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 03 Aug 2020
Daniel B. Klein, Jason Briggeman, William L. Davis and Abigail Devereaux
George Mason University - Department of Economics, Austin Community College - Department of Economics, University of Tennessee, Martin - Department of Economics and Wichita State University, Department of Economics
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Positive, Normative, Ought

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Give Us a Little Social Credit: To Design or to Discover Personal Ratings in the Era of Big Data

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 18-35
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 06 Dec 2018 Last Revised: 20 Oct 2021
Abigail Devereaux and Linan Peng
Wichita State University, Department of Economics and Texas Tech University
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social credit, personal ratings, big data, trustworthiness, public goods, institutions

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The Nudge Wars: A Modern Socialist Calculation Debate

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 17-44
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 17 Apr 2017 Last Revised: 20 Dec 2017
Abigail Devereaux
Wichita State University, Department of Economics
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nudge theory, behavioral economics, socialist calculation, libertarian paternalism

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Contrasting Visions for Macroeconomic Theory: DSGE and OEE

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 17-35
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 18 Oct 2017
Abigail Devereaux and Richard E. Wagner
Wichita State University, Department of Economics and George Mason University - Department of Economics
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Macro Theory as Systems Theory; DSGE Modeling; OEE Modeling; Generative vs. Stipulative Modeling; Synchronic vs. Diachronic Macro; Ecological Games

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Expert Failure and Pandemics: On Adapting to Life With Pandemics

Cosmos + Taxis, Vol 9 Issues 5-6
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 28 Jan 2021 Last Revised: 26 Apr 2021
Jon Murphy, Abigail Devereaux, Nathan P. Goodman and Roger Koppl
George Mason University - Department of Economics, Wichita State University, Department of Economics, New York University (NYU) - Department of Economics and Syracuse University
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COVID-19, Expert Failure, Market Failure, Information Economics, Pandemic, Knowledge Problem

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Game Theory as Social Theory: Finding Spontaneous Order

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 18-23
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 31 Aug 2018
Abigail Devereaux and Richard E. Wagner
Wichita State University, Department of Economics and George Mason University - Department of Economics
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distributed knowledge; assembly of knowledge; synecology as social theory; emergence of institutional arrangements; realism in economic models; complexity; spontaneous order

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Infectious Diseases and Government Growth

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 20-40
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 03 Sep 2020 Last Revised: 03 Nov 2020
Nathan P. Goodman, Christopher J. Coyne and Abigail Devereaux
New York University (NYU) - Department of Economics, George Mason University - Department of Economics and Wichita State University, Department of Economics
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apartheid, bubonic plague, compulsory vaccination, COVID-19, crises, infectious disease, growth of government, pandemics, ratchet effect, smallpox, zoning laws

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The limits of control in the face of accelerating growth: a complexity economist’s view

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 25 Oct 2021
Abigail Devereaux
Wichita State University, Department of Economics
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policy, political economy, nonlinearity, chaos

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Agent-based Modeling as Quintessential Tool for Open-ended Social Theorizing

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 19-07
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 11 Apr 2019
Abigail Devereaux and Richard E. Wagner
Wichita State University, Department of Economics and George Mason University - Department of Economics
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agent-based modeling; open-ended theorizing; mechanical vs. creative social systems; generation vs. stipulation; debate vs. discussion in political economy

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Explaining Technology

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 01 Jun 2021
Roger Koppl, Abigail Devereaux, Sergi Valverde, Ricard Solé, Stuart Kauffman and James Herriot
Syracuse University, Wichita State University, Department of Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Institute for Systems Biology and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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adjacent possible,growth,combinatorial explosion,history

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Emergence, Equilibrium, and Agent-Based Modeling: Updating James Buchanan’s Democratic Political Economy

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 18-22
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 31 Aug 2018
Abigail Devereaux and Richard E. Wagner
Wichita State University, Department of Economics and George Mason University - Department of Economics
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equilibrium and emergence; commons governance; agent-based computational economics; open-ended modeling; debate vs. discussion in political economy; stipulative vs. generative modeling

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The Topology of Contextual Choice: Can Nudge Policy Work in the Real World?

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 14 Aug 2018
Abigail Devereaux
Wichita State University, Department of Economics
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behavioral economics, nudge theory, mathematical economics, game theory, networks, complexity economics

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Complex and Entangled Public Policy: Here Be Dragons

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 24 May 2018 Last Revised: 22 Dec 2019
Abigail Devereaux
Wichita State University, Department of Economics
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complexity economics, public choice, political economy, machine learning, agent-based modeling, OEE modeling, algorithmic design, algorithms

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Constraints on modeling systems from within systems: the principle of frame relativity

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 23 Nov 2021
Abigail Devereaux, Roger Koppl, Stuart Kauffman and Andrea Roli
Wichita State University, Department of Economics, Syracuse University, Institute for Systems Biology and Universita di Bologna
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metamathematics, incompleteness, Gödel, inference, epistemics

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Approaching the Singularity Behind the Veil of Incomputability: On Algorithmic Governance, the Economist-as-Expert, and the Piecemeal Circumnavigation of the Administrative State

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 28 Feb 2019
Abigail Devereaux
Wichita State University, Department of Economics
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algorithmic bias, epistemology, computability, economic theory

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Multiple Games Analysis: A Petri Dish for Growing Polycentric Orders

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 19-44
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 09 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 16 Dec 2019
Abigail Devereaux
Wichita State University, Department of Economics
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game theory, complexity, agent-based modeling, macroeconomic theory

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Visualizing the Division of Knowledge: A Simulation of the Formation of Transactive Memory Systems

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 12 Feb 2019
Abigail Devereaux and Xiaoyi Yuan
Wichita State University, Department of Economics and George Mason University, Students
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transactive memory, social network analysis, triadic structures, team performance, division of knowledge

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Signaling Sympathy: Rule-Making as a Discovery Procedure in the Theory of Moral Sentiments

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 23 Feb 2018
Abigail Devereaux
Wichita State University, Department of Economics
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Adam Smith, complexity, general rules, morality

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Rational Action and Systemic Response: Using Time to Integrate Subjective and Objective Probabilities

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 20-48
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 14 Dec 2020
Abigail Devereaux and Richard E. Wagner
Wichita State University, Department of Economics and George Mason University - Department of Economics
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ecology of plans; category mistake; subjective probability; objective probability; real vs. notional time; reason vs. rationality; ecological rationality