Modeling economic learning as modeling

Cybernetics and Systems

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 215-247

  Moss, Scott ^a   Edmonds, Bruce ^a  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ECONOMIC LEARNING;

ECONOMIC CYBERNETICS;

EID: 0032042546     PISSN: 01969722     EISSN: 10876553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/019697298125696     Document Type: Article

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