Complexity, Evolution, and the Structure of Demand

Flexibility and Stability in the Innovating Economy

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Foster, John ^a   Polts, Jason ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aspirations; Complex systems theory; Consumption; Economic evolution; Innovation; Network representations; Production

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947596499     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/0199290474.003.0005     Document Type: Chapter

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