Opening-up the objective function: Choice behavior and economic and non-economic variables-core and marginal altruism

Economics Bulletin

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Altman, Morris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

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