The Enforcement of Contracts and Property Rights: Constitutive versus Epiphenomenal Conceptions of Law

International Review of Sociology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 375-391

  Hodgson, Geoffrey M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0345059970     PISSN: 03906701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0390670032000117335     Document Type: Conference Paper

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