Progress in Economics: Lessons from the Spectrum Auctions

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Economics

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Alexandrova, Anna ^a   Northcott, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacities account; Credible worlds account; Economics; Federal communications commission; Scientific models

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957527230     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195189254.003.0011     Document Type: Chapter

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