Economics and Psychology: Lessons for Our Own Day from the Early Twentieth Century

Journal of Economic Literature

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1293-1323

  Lewin, Shira B ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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