Bickley Steve J.
The history of AI in economics is long and winding, much the same as theevolving field of AI itself. Economists have engaged with AI since its beginnings, albeit in varying degrees and with changing focus across time and places. In this stu...
As artificial intelligence (AI) thrives and propagates through modern life, a keyquestion to ask is how to include humans in future AI? Despite human-involvement at every stage of the pr oduction process from conception and design through t...
Behavioural Economics, What Have we Missed?
Exploring “Classical” Behavioural Economics Roots in AI, Cognitive Psychology, and Complexity Theory
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In this chapter, we ask (conceptually and methodologically) what exactly isbehavioural economics and what are its roots? And further, what may we have missed along the way? We argue that revisiting “classical” behavioural economics conc...
AI and Big Data provide opportunities and challenges with respect to howwe achieve safety in livable smart cities. In this contribution, we look at set of aspects that are important at the city level; namely, how urban analytics and digital...
Quantum-Sapiens: The Quantum Bases for Human Expertise, Knowledge, and Problem-Solving
(Extended Version with Applications)
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Despite the great promises and potential of quantum computing, the fullrange of possibilities and practical applications is not yet clear. In this contribution, we highlight the potential for quantum theories and computation to reignite the...
The recent acceleration and ongoing development in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its related (and/orenabling) digital technologies presents new challenges and considerable opportunity on which businesses and individuals may capitalise. I...
Quantum-Sapiens: The Quantum Bases for Human Expertise, Knowledge, and Problem-Solving
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In this contribution, we highlight the potential for quantum theories toreignite the art and science of expert systems and knowledge engineering. With their fundamental grounding in uncertainty and unpredictability, quantum concepts are abl...
Turbulence in the financial markets: Cross-country differences in market volatility in
response to COVID-19 pandemic policies
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The current coronavirus pandemic has had far-reaching global effects on thehealth and wellbeing of individuals across each and every continent of the world. The economic and financial market response has been equally disastrous and turbulen...
A Systematic Approach to Safety Incidents in Public Health – Applying the Human Factors Analysis and Classification System to COVID-19
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In this article, we argue for application of the Human Factors Analysis and ClassificationSystem (HFACS) to proactive incidence prevention in the public health system response to COVID-19. HFACS is a framework of causal categories of human ...
This paper examines the effects of globalisation on the pace of governments implementing internationaltravel restrictions during the recent coronavirus pandemic. We find that more globalised countries experienced a longer delay in implement...