Economics and barbarism: An anthropological comment on Pearson's "homo economicus"

History of Political Economy

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 990-998

  Ferguson, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0040440360     PISSN: 00182702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/00182702-32-4-991     Document Type: Article

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