The basic unit of economic analysis: Individuals or markets?. A comment on "Markets come to bits" by Phil. Mirowski

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 284-294

  Kirman, Alan ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

Computability; Information; Markets; Mechanism design

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947521219     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2005.12.017     Document Type: Note

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