Bounded Rationality
September 26th, 2006 by WaltAriel Rubinstein has made his book, Modeling Bounded Rationality, available online. Economic models tend to assume that humans are mistake-free calculating machines; economists have tried to introduce more realistic assumptions under the banner of bounded rationality. This is a far-from-settled problem, mainly because there are more ways to be wrong than there are to be right.
September 27th, 2006 at 8:05 am
[...] Ars Mathematica has a link to a book on Modeling Bounded Rationality that has recently been made avaialible free in pdf format. [...]