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Research Article

The Doubly-Bounded Rationality of an Artificial Agent and its Ability to Represent the Bounded Rationality of a Human Decision-Maker in Policy-Relevant Situations

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Pages 727-749 | Received 20 Jan 2019, Accepted 29 Aug 2019, Published online: 11 Oct 2019

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