Sources of Risk, Institutions for Survival, and a Game against Nature in Premodern Iceland

Explorations in Economic History

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-30

  Eggertsson, Thráinn ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF HUMAN HISTORY   (Germany)

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EID: 0012602695     PISSN: 00144983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exeh.1997.0686     Document Type: Article

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