Simon's election theory: Why docility evolves to breed successful altruism

Journal of Economic Psychology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 229-244

  Knudsen, Thorbjørn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Altruism; Bounded rationality; Evolutionary economics; Natural selection; Organisational behaviour

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037333756     PISSN: 01674870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4870(02)00205-2     Document Type: Article

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