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This chapter reflects on the models introduced so far in the book. It explores problems and missing elements in the study of social norms, arguing that agent-based modelling has so far left out important aspects of social norms. This chapter functions as the conceptual base for the following three chapters that introduce models implementing some of the missing features.
The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man. Erich Fromm
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Elsenbroich, C., Gilbert, N. (2014). Modelling Norms. In: Modelling Norms. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7052-2_10
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