Production of Ideas by Means of Ideas: A Turing Machine Metaphor

Metroeconomica

Volumn 55, Issue 2-3, 2004, Pages 155-179

  Zambelli, Stefano ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

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EID: 33947518299     PISSN: 00261386     EISSN: 1467999X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0026-1386.2004.00188.x     Document Type: Article

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