Toward an economic theory of dysfunctional identity

The Social Economics of Poverty: On Identities, Communities, Groups, and Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 12-53

  Fang, Hanming ^a   Loury, Glenn C ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 42149137106     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203799659     Document Type: Chapter

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