Forthcoming · 2026
Society
in Silico
The Story of Policy Simulation
How computational models help us understand society and work toward our shared goals—from microsimulation to general equilibrium, and the AI-powered future ahead.
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"The computer makes it possible to experiment with economic policy in something like the way a pilot can be trained in a flight simulator."— Guy Orcutt, 1957
Table of Contents
Part I
Origins
From Orcutt's 1957 microsimulation to CGE models—how economists learned to simulate society.
Part IIBuilding
The open-source revolution—how transparent tools are democratizing policy analysis.
Part IIIFuture
What happens when AI meets microsimulation? The coming transformation of policy analysis.