Distributed Computation as an Economic System

As computer networks grow and blanket the planet, they become a community of concurrent processes, which, in their interactions, strategies, and lack of perfect knowledge, become analogous to human market economies. Economics may thus offer new ways of designing and understanding the behavior of distributed computer systems.

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Year of publication:	1995
Authors:	Huberman, Bernardo A. ; Hogg, Tad
Published in:	Journal of Economic Perspectives. - American Economic Association - AEA. - Vol. 9.1995, 1, p. 141-152
Publisher:	American Economic Association - AEA

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Extent:	application/pdf
Type of publication:	Article
Notes:	DOI: 10.1257/jep.9.1.141
Classification:	L96 - Telecommunications ; A14 - Sociology of Economics
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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