Section I: introduction
Crises and sunspots
Being human
Section II: the four horsemen
Social interactions and computational irreducibility
The individual and the human wave: emergent phenomena
Context and ergodicity
Human experience and radical uncertainty
Heuristics: how to act like a human
Section III: paradigm past and future
Economics in crisis
Agent-based models
Agents in the complexity spectrum
Section IV: agent-based models for financial crises
The structure of the financial system: agents and the environment
Liquidity and crashes
The 2008 crisis with an agent-based view
Section V: the end of theory
Is it a number or a story? Model as narrative
Conclusion.