Kinds of assumptions and their truth: Shaking an untwisted F-twist

Kyklos

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 317-335

  Maki, U ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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ECONOMIC THEORY;

EID: 0033825886     PISSN: 00235962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-6435.00123     Document Type: Article

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