The Social Selection of Flexible and Rigid Agents

American Economic Review

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 63-82

  Harrington Jr , Joseph E ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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