A macro economy as an ecology of plans

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 82, Issue 2-3, 2012, Pages 433-444

  Wagner, Richard E ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Complexity; Ecology of plans; Emergence; Micro foundations; Scale free modeling; Spontaneous ordering; Supervention; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860424454     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2011.07.019     Document Type: Article

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