Turtles all the way down: Bounded rationality in an evidence-based age

Policy Studies

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 367-379

  Botterill, Linda Courtenay ^a   Hindmoor, Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

bounded rationality; evidence based policy; obesity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866848610     PISSN: 01442872     EISSN: 14701006     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01442872.2011.626315     Document Type: Article

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