Looking under the hood: Exploring assumptions and finding behavioral economics

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 73-76

  Pingle, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bounded rationality, Cognitive scarcity, Deliberation cost, Transactions cost, Assumptions

Indexed keywords

EID: 72949090656     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2008.10.018     Document Type: Note

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