His central research interests are in macroeconomics, simulation economics, social economics, labor economics, health economics and economic methodology. His recent work includes agent-based simulation models in: human and social capital accumulation and their macroeconomic implications, the evolution of scientific research programs (à la Lakatos), and consumption spending with business cycle dynamics. Dr. Farhat’s other interests include population dynamics (with applications to crime), the study of prosocial behavior and the provision of public goods, culturomics (with application to health), the study of entrepreneurship and innovation, and the use of neural network models in economic decision-making (with application to spending and social networking).