Connecting economic models to the real world: Game theory and the FCC spectrum auctions

Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 173-192

  Alexandrova, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Economic experiments; Economic models; John Stuart Mill; Policy making; Tendencies

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646684758     PISSN: 00483931     EISSN: 15527441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0048393106287210     Document Type: Article

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