The Rise of Cost-Benefit Rationality as Solution to a Political Problem of Distrust

Research in Law and Economics

Volumn 23, Issue , 2007, Pages 337-344

  Porter, Theodore M ^a  

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EID: 34547763264     PISSN: 01935895     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0193-5895(07)23014-3     Document Type: Review

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