Adaptation of tastes to constraints

Theory and Decision

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 379-395

  Welsch, Heinz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Attainability; Endogenous preferences; Endogenous tastes

Indexed keywords

CODES (STANDARDS); COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

ADAPTATION; ATTAINABILITY; ENDOGENEOUS PREFERENCES; ENDOGENEOUS TASTES;

CONSTRAINT THEORY;

EID: 23244449320     PISSN: 00405833     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11238-005-0283-y     Document Type: Article

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