Information, knowledge and modellingeconomic agency

The Elgar Companion to Economics and Philosophy

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 423-445

  Faulkner, Philip ^a,b   Runde, Jochen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Cambridge   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4337/9781845423490.00029     Document Type: Chapter

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