Computational and Mathematical Modeling in the Social Sciences

Acknowledgments ix Prelude xi 1 Not All Fun and Games: Challenges in Mathematical Modeling 1(33) 2 Looking for Car Keys Without Any Street Lights 34(44) 3 From Curses to Complexity: The Justification for Computational Modeling 78(35) 4 Why Everything Should Look Like a Nail: Deriving Parsimonious Encodings for Complex Games 113(31) 5 KKV Redux: Deriving and Testing Logical Implications 144(32) 6 A Short Conclusion 176(5) References 181(10) Index 191