Simplicity, Inference and Modelling: Keeping It Sophisticatedly Simple Book

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	List of contributors
1	The enigma of simplicity	1
Pt. I	The importance of simplicity	11
2	What is the problem of simplicity?	13
3	Science seeks parsimony, not simplicity: searching for pattern in phenomena	32
4	A macroeconomic approach to complexity	73
5	The new science of simplicity	83
6	What explains complexity?	120
7	Occam's bonus	128
Pt. II	Simplicity in theory and practice	133
8	Simplicity, information, Kolmogorov complexity and prediction	135
9	Simplicity and statistical inference	156
10	Rissanen's theorem and econometric time series	165
11	Parametric versus non-parametric inference: statistical models and simplicity	181
12	The role of simplicity in an econometric model selection process	207
13	Simplicity in a behavioural, non-parametric context	227
14	Keep it sophisticatedly simple	242
15	Communication, complexity and coordination in games	263
16	The simplicity of an earnings frontier	277
17	Simplicity: views of some Nobel laureates in economic science	292
	Index	297