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Endogenous Firm Dynamics and Labor Flows via Heterogeneous Agents ✶ ✶Support from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the National Science Foundation (0738606), the Small Business Administration (SBAHQ-05-Q-0018), and the Mercatus Center at George Mason is gratefully acknowledged. I have no relevant or material financial interests that relate to the research described in this paper or the associated model. Earlier versions of this work were presented at research institutions (Aix-en-Provence, Arizona State, Brookings, Carnegie Mellon, Emory, Esalen, Essex, George Mason, Georgia, Georgia Tech, James Madison, Leicester, Leiden, Limerick, Nanyang Technological University, New School for Social Research, Office of Financial Research, Oxford, Queen Mary and Westfield, Sant' Anna (Pisa), Santa Fe Institute, Turino) and conferences (Eastern Economic Association, INFORMS, Society for Computational Economics, Southern Economic Association) where comments from attendees yielded significant improvements. For helpful feedback on the manuscript I am grateful to Zoltan Acs, Luis Amaral, Brian Arthur, David Audretsch, Bob Axelrod, Bob Ayres, Eric Beinhocker, Margaret Blair, Pete Boettke, David Canning, Kathleen Carley, John Chisholm, Alex Coad, Herbert Dawid, Art DeVany, Bill Dickens, Kathy Eisenhardt, Joshua Epstein, Doyne Farmer, Rich Florida, Duncan Foley, Xavier Gabaix, Chris Georges, Herb Gintis, Joe Harrington, John Holland, Stu Kauffman, Steve Kimbrough, Paul Kleindorfer, Blake LeBaron, Axel Leijonhufvud, Bob Litan, Francesco Luna, Jim March, Michael Maouboussin, Greg McRae, Benoit Morel, Scott Moss, Paul Omerod, J. Barkley Rosser Jr., Martin Shubik, Gene Stanley, Dan Teitelbaum, Leigh Tesfatsion, Sid Winter and several people who are no longer with us: Per Bak, Michael Cohen, Ben Harrison, Steve Klepper, Sam Kotz, and Benoit Mandelbrot. The late Herb Simon inspired and encouraged the work. Anna Nelson and Omar Guerrero each advanced the work through their Ph.D. dissertations. Thanks are due Miles Parker and Gabriel Balan for implementing the model in Java, first in Ascape and then in Mason. Errors are my own.

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