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Book Information
Author(s):
Kenneth R. Mount and Stanley Reiter
Title:
Computation and complexity in economic behavior and organization
Additional book information:
Cambridge Univ. Press,
Cambridge and New York,
2002,
x+237,
$55.00,
0-521-80056-0
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- Saari, Donald, 1995. ``Mathematical Complexity of Simple Economics," Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 42, No. 2. MR 95m:90029
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- Shubik, Martin, 1982. Game Theory in the Social Sciences. Cambridge: The MIT Press. MR 83m:90109
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- Simon, Herbert A., 1955. ``A Behavioral Model of Rational Choice," Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 69, No. 1: 99-118.
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Additional Information:
Reviewer(s):
Stephen
J.
DeCanio
Affiliation:
University of California, Santa Barbara
Email:
decanio@econ.ucsb.edu
Review Information:
Journal:
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.
41
(2004),
117-120.
MSC
(2000):
Primary 91B02
DOI:
10.1090/S0273-0979-03-00996-0
PII:
S 0273-0979(03)00996-0
Posted:
September 19, 2003
Copyright of article:
Copyright
2003,
American Mathematical Society
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