Transaction costs and Islam: Explaining conversion in Africa

Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics

Volumn 153, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-29

  Ensminger, Jean ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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