Money matters: A reality check, with help from Virginia woolf

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 40, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 99-123

  Schrecker, Ted ^a  

^a Westminster Institute for Ethics and Human Values   (Canada)

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ECONOMIC INDICATORS; WELL BEING;

EID: 0031410009     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1006899225869     Document Type: Article

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