Complexity, economics, and public policy

Politics, Philosophy and Economics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 45-75

  Durlauf, Steven N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

agent based models; complexity; economics; emergence; public policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857135371     PISSN: 1470594X     EISSN: 17413060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1470594X11434625     Document Type: Article

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