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Book Information:
Authors:
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 pp.,
ISBN 0-521-80056-0,
$55.00$
1. Chaitin, Gregory J., 1998. The Limits of Mathematics. Singapore: Springer-Verlag. MR 98m:68056
2. DeCanio, Stephen J., 1999. ``Estimating the Non-Environmental Consequences of Greenhouse Gas Reductions Is Harder Than You Think," Contemporary Economic Policy, Vol. 17, No. 3 (July): 279-295.
3. Fisher, Franklin M., 1989. ``Games Economists Play: A Noncooperative View," The RAND Journal of Economics, Vol. 20, No. 1: 113-124. MR 91a:90022
4. Garey, Michael R., and David S. Johnson, 1979 [updated 1991]. Computers and Intractability: A Guide to the Theory of NP-Completeness. New York: Freeman. MR 80g:68056
5. Ingrao, Bruna, and Giorgio Israel, 1990. The Invisible Hand: Economic Equilibrium in the History of Science. Cambridge, MA: M.I.T. Press. MR 92j:90014
6. Radner, Roy, 1992. ``Hierarchy: The Economics of Managing," Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 30: 1382-1415.
7. Rust, John, 1996 [revised 1997]. ``Dealing With the Complexity of Economic Calculations," paper for ``Fundamental Limits to Knowledge in Economics," Workshop, Santa Fe Institute, 3 August 1996.
8. Saari, Donald, 1995. ``Mathematical Complexity of Simple Economics," Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 42, No. 2. MR 95m:90029
9. Shubik, Martin, 1982. Game Theory in the Social Sciences. Cambridge: The MIT Press. MR 83m:90109
10. Simon, Herbert A., 1955. ``A Behavioral Model of Rational Choice," Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 69, No. 1: 99-118.
11. Spear, Stephen E., 1989. ``Learning Rational Expectations under Computability Constraints," Econometrica 57(4): 889-910. MR 90m:90071
12. Van Zandt, T., 1998. ``Organizations with an endogenous number of information processing agents," in M. Majumdar, editor, Organizations with Incomplete Information, pp. 239-305. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- 1.
- Chaitin, Gregory J., 1998. The Limits of Mathematics. Singapore: Springer-Verlag. MR 98m:68056
- 2.
- DeCanio, Stephen J., 1999. ``Estimating the Non-Environmental Consequences of Greenhouse Gas Reductions Is Harder Than You Think," Contemporary Economic Policy, Vol. 17, No. 3 (July): 279-295.
- 3.
- Fisher, Franklin M., 1989. ``Games Economists Play: A Noncooperative View," The RAND Journal of Economics, Vol. 20, No. 1: 113-124. MR 91a:90022
- 4.
- Garey, Michael R., and David S. Johnson, 1979 [updated 1991]. Computers and Intractability: A Guide to the Theory of NP-Completeness. New York: Freeman. MR 80g:68056
- 5.
- Ingrao, Bruna, and Giorgio Israel, 1990. The Invisible Hand: Economic Equilibrium in the History of Science. Cambridge, MA: M.I.T. Press. MR 92j:90014
- 6.
- Radner, Roy, 1992. ``Hierarchy: The Economics of Managing," Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 30: 1382-1415.
- 7.
- Rust, John, 1996 [revised 1997]. ``Dealing With the Complexity of Economic Calculations," paper for ``Fundamental Limits to Knowledge in Economics," Workshop, Santa Fe Institute, 3 August 1996.
- 8.
- Saari, Donald, 1995. ``Mathematical Complexity of Simple Economics," Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 42, No. 2. MR 95m:90029
- 9.
- Shubik, Martin, 1982. Game Theory in the Social Sciences. Cambridge: The MIT Press. MR 83m:90109
- 10.
- Simon, Herbert A., 1955. ``A Behavioral Model of Rational Choice," Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 69, No. 1: 99-118.
- 11.
- Spear, Stephen E., 1989. ``Learning Rational Expectations under Computability Constraints," Econometrica 57(4): 889-910. MR 90m:90071
- 12.
- Van Zandt, T., 1998. ``Organizations with an endogenous number of information processing agents," in M. Majumdar, editor, Organizations with Incomplete Information, pp. 239-305. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Review Information:
Reviewer:
Stephen J. DeCanio
Affiliation:
University of California, Santa Barbara
Email:
decanio@econ.ucsb.edu
Journal:
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.
41 (2004), 117-120
Published electronically:
September 19, 2003
Review copyright:
© Copyright 2003
American Mathematical Society
