Social norms

Handbook of Social Economics

Volumn 1, Issue 1 B, 2011, Pages 311-338

  Burke, Mary A ^a   Peyton Young, H ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Norm convention increasing returns dynamical systems stochastic stability evolutionary game theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054890051     PISSN: 15706435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-53187-2.00008-5     Document Type: Chapter

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