The normative significance of the individual in economics: Freedom, dignity, and human rights

Ethics and the Market: Insights from Social Economics

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 69-83

  Davis, John B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203967782     Document Type: Chapter

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