Game theory: Can it unify the social sciences?

Organization Studies

Volumn 29, Issue 8-9, 2008, Pages 1255-1277

  Varoufakis, Yanis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bargaining; Equilibrium; Evolution; Game Theory; Social science

Indexed keywords

EID: 51049123852     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840608094779     Document Type: Article

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