Satisficing: A 'Pretty Good' Heuristic

B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Bendor, Jonathan Brodie ^a   Kumar, Sunil ^a   Siegel, David A ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bounded rationality; Heuristics; Satisficing

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649220200     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19351704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1935-1704.1478     Document Type: Article

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