On Positional Consumption and Technological Innovation- an Agent-based Approach
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Positional consumption; innovation; agent-based models; Robert Frank;All these keywords.
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CSE-2010-04-17 (Economics of Strategic Management)
- NEP-INO-2010-04-17 (Innovation)
- NEP-KNM-2010-04-17 (Knowledge Management and Knowledge Economy)
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