EPERN is excited to invite Santiago Jose Gangotena to present his research on “Networks, Bifurcations, and Agents in Entangled Political Economy.”

One insight that flows out of entangled political economy is the possibility of network effects with respect to the different modes of interaction available to individuals for securing cooperation to carry out their plans. When either political or economic modes of interaction can be used network effects may arise. This paper explores how these effects can be modeled using mathematical and computational models to explore how the difference in the choice of modeling framework affects these model’s outcomes and predictions..

Santiago Jose Gangotena is a Professor of Economics and Dean of Liberal Arts at Universidad San Francisco de Quito (the first private liberal arts university in Ecuador!). He holds a Bachelor of Science in Physics from Tufts University and a Ph.D. in Economics from George Mason University. His research focuses on what new knowledge can be gained from modeling the society using Agent Based Models.