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Agents
Agent may refer to one who acts for, or in the place of, another, by authority from him; one intrusted with the business of another.
Agent (law), in commercial law, is a person who is authorized to act on behalf of another (called the principal) to create a legal relationship with a third party
- Election agent, person legally responsible for the conduct of a candidate’s political campaign (UK)
- Free agent, sports player whose contract with a team has expired
- Literary agent, person who represents writers and their written works to publishers, theatrical producers and film producers
- Press agent, professional publicist who acts on behalf of his or her client on all matters involving public relations
- Sports agent, person who procures and negotiates employment and endorsement deals for a player
- Talent agent or booking agent, person who finds jobs for actors, musicians and models, etc., in various entertainment businesses
- Foreign agent, person representing the interests of foreign powers, mandated by the Foreign Agents Registration Act to be identified to the American public
- Patent agent or patent attorney, person who has the specialized qualifications necessary for representing clients in obtaining patents and acting in all matters and procedures relating to patent law and practice
- Real estate agent or real estate broker, person who acts as an intermediary between sellers and buyers of real estate
- Travel agent, person who works on behalf of a travel agency
- Tuition agent, person who works on behalf of a tuition agency, specializing in introducing tutors to students requiring help in the academic area
- Yacht agent or yacht broker, specialist who acts as a representative for the sale of a yacht or boat
- Agent (economics), actor and decision maker in a model
- Homo economicus, concept in some economic theories of humans as rational and broadly self-interested actors
- As discussed by economists as the principal-agent problem, agent means anyone supposed to act in the interests of the principal, especially insofar as the actions of the agent cannot be completely monitored by the principal. In this sense agent includes such diverse and common roles as auto mechanic, a doctor, a lawyer, an investment advisor, any fiduciary, a contractor, any employee (from the point of view of the employer), and a political representative in a democracy.
- Agent-Based Computational Economics, computational study of economic processes modeled as dynamic systems of interacting agents
- Rational agent, entity which has clear preferences, models uncertainty via expected values, and always chooses to perform the action that results in the optimal outcome for itself from among all feasible actions
- Representative agent, refers to the typical decision-maker of a certain type
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia : Agents
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