Markets come to bits: Evolution, computation and markomata in economic science

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 209-242

  Mirowski, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Automata theory; Complexity of markets; Evolution of markets; Evolutionary computational economics; Markomata

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947542585     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2005.03.015     Document Type: Article

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