Simulating the coordination of individual economic decisions

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 287, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 613-630

  Nowak, Andrzej ^a,b   Kuś, Marek ^a,c   Urbaniak, Jakub ^a   Zarycki, Tomasz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b SWPS UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Poland)

^c CENTER FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECONOMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

INDIVIDUAL ECONOMIC DECISIONS;

STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

EID: 0034501937     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(00)00397-6     Document Type: Article

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