Gerald Silverberg
Guest Senior Research Scholar
Exploratory Modeling of Human-natural Systems Research Group
Advancing Systems Analysis Program
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Biography
Gerald Silverberg studied physics and mathematics at Cornell and Harvard Universities in the USA. He worked as a science journalist in New York before moving to Europe and studying economics and economic history, as well as mathematical systems theory. He was a Research Associate at the University of Stuttgart from 1983 to 1987 with primary responsibility for a research project on technical change and the theory of self-organisation, sponsored by the German Research Council (DFG). In 1987 he was employed by the International Federation of Institutes for Advanced Study (IFIAS); since January 1988 he has been a Senior Research Fellow at the Maastricht Economic and Social Research and Training Centre on Innovation and Technology (MERIT).Dr. Silverberg first worked at IIASA in 1995/96. He returned to the Institute in July 2006 and is currently working with the DYN Program.
Last update: 14 JUL 2009
Publications
McNerney, J., Fath, B.D. , & Silverberg, G. (2013). Network structure of inter-industry flows. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 392 (24) 6427-6441. 10.1016/j.physa.2013.07.063.
McNerney, J., Fath, B.D. , & Silverberg, G. (2012). Network Structure of Inter-industry Flows. IIASA Interim Report. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: IR-12-008
Silverberg, G. (2011). Complexity and Co-evolution: Continuity and Change in Socio-economic Systems (Review of the book by Elizabeth Garnsey and James McGlade. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham: 2006). [[Economica]], 78(309):188-190 (January 2011) (Published online 14 December 2010) 10.1111/j.1468-0335.2010.00706.x.
Cantono, S. & Silverberg, G. (2009). A percolation model of eco-innovation diffusion: The relationship between diffusion, learning economies and subsidies. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 76 (4) 487-496. 10.1016/j.techfore.2008.04.010.
Frenken, K. & Silverberg, G. (2007). Editorial: Advances in complex systems. Advances in Complex Systems 10 (1) 1-4. 10.1142/S0219525907000908.