“...SUMMARY A pandemic is not only a biological event and a public health disaster, but it also generates impacts that are worth understanding from economic,...”

“...The paper treats opinion dynamics under bounded confidence when agents employ, beside an arithmetic mean, means like a geometric mean, a power mean or a random...”

“...The bounded confidence model has been widely used to formally study groups of agents who are sharing opinions with those in their epistemic neighborhood. We...”

“...Model building in the social sciences can increasingly rely on well elaborated formal theories. At the same time inexpensive large computational capacities are...”

“...There seems to be an overarching historical process in which life in small groups has evolved into life in large societies. This paper describes the design of...”

“...This paper develops a formal framework to model a process in which the formation of individual opinions is embedded in a deliberative exchange with others. The...”