Functional Modularity in the Fundamentals of Economic Theory: Toward an Agent-Based Economic Modeling of the Evolution of Technology

[[abstract]]An early version of the paper was presented at the 9th International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance and the First Cross-Strait Conference on Statistical Physics. It was also presented as a part of a sequence of intensive lectures given at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). The authors are grateful to Prof. Bing-Hong Wang for hosting the authors' visit at USTC. The authors would also like to thank the two anonymous referees for their helpful suggestions. NSC research grant No. 92-2415-H-004-005 is gratefully acknowledged.[[notice]]補正完畢[[journaltype]]國外[[incitationindex]]SC