Scaling heuristics shape technology! Should economic theory take notice?

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 513-531

  Winter, Sidney G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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ECONOMIC THEORY; GEOMETRY; HEURISTICS; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE; TEXTBOOK;

EID: 45149112723     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: 14643650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtn015     Document Type: Review

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