A Christian perspective on Neoclassical rational choice theory

International Journal of Social Economics

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 501-520

  Beed, Clive ^a   Beed, Cara ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Beliefs; Individual behaviour

Indexed keywords

EID: 0004359570     PISSN: 03068293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03068299910216158     Document Type: Article

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