The special issue features contributions to such a new Civic Economics with a theoretical empirical focus as pursued at the Conference on “Research frontiers for a Renaissance in Economics”, held at the Department of Economics of the University of Perugia on Jun 20-21, 2024, and announced in the ‘Manifesto for the Renaissance in Economics’ signed by more than 300 economists. Contributions from researchers in economics, but also from interdisciplinary domains, are welcome. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- analysis of wealth and income inequality
- models in economics of markets with heterogeneous agents
- behavioral models in economics
- emergence of cooperation
- social wellbeing and systemic stability
- labor, economic growth and technical change
- spatial models and urban systems
- sustainable development and climate change
- behavioral models in finance
- choices under bounded rationality, feedback systems and learning
- agent-based models of adaptive agents with artificial intelligence
- aggregate and disaggregate macroeconomic models and policy analysis
- multisectoral SAM based models
- social and complex networks
- non-linear economic dynamics, econophysics, deterministic chaos in economics
- evolutionary game theory
- experimental economics
- collective decisions