Evolutionary Economics Goes Mainstream: A Review of The Theory of Learning in Games
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1 My thanks to JEE Editor Steven Klepper for inviting an article reviewing Fu-denberg and Levine's new book in "a larger context of work in learning, evolution, and games." Some of the material below draws on "Adaptive Process Economics," work in progress by Axel Leijonhufvud, myself, and Peter Howitt. I am also indebted to Donald Wittman for useful comments.
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تاریخ انتشار 1998