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RODE: Learning Roles to Decompose Multi-Agent Tasks (2020, background): “When dealing with complex tasks, instead of directly conducting a collective search in the full action-observation space, they typically decompose the task and let sub-groups of individuals learn to solve different sub-tasks (Smith, 1937; Butler, 2012).”
ROMA: Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Emergent Roles (2020, methodology): “For example, in Adam Smith’s Pin Factory, workers must complete up to eighteen different tasks to create one pin (Smith, 1937).”
Human Capital Externalities in Cities (2003, background): “10 Even earlier, Adam Smith (1776) emphasized the benefits of increased cognitive capacity among the com”
State Capacity and Long-Run Economic Performance (2016, unknown): “…geography, the nature and quality of initial political institutions (Bockstette et al., 2002, Acemoglu et al., 2005), initial economic and technological conditions (Comin et al., 2010), and cultural norms (Greif and Tabellini, 2010), while the fixed effects λt account for common time shocks.”