Includes bibliographical references and index.

Theory and reality in economics: insights from three allegories / Michihiro Kandori -- The dynamics of pure market exchange / Herbert Gintis -- Toward an analytical solution for agent-based models: an application to a credit network economy / Corrado di Guilmi ... [et al.] -- The EURACE macroeconomic model and simulator / Silvano Cincotti, Marco Roberto and Andrea Teglio -- Aspects of naturalizing the social contract / Brian Skyrms -- The role of salience in the emergence and reproduction of norms / Robert Sugden -- Fairness as an equilibrium selection device / Ken Binmore -- A Shapley-value parable of corporations as evolutive systems of associational cognition / Michihiro Aoki -- On the plasticity of the corporate form / Katharina Pistor -- An end to consensus? The selective impact of corporate law reform on financial development / Simon Deakin, Prabirkit Sarkar and Ajit Singh -- Government banks and growth: theory and evidence / Svetlana Andrianova, Panicos Demetriades and Anja Shortland.

Drawing on behavioural, experimental and neoclassical economics, this volume brings together eminent academics and practitioners to provide working macroeconomic models and explore the social norms governing a post-crisis financial world.