Some tendencies of social welfare and the problem of interpretation

Cato Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 499-513

  Ziliak, Stephen T ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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