The price of inscrutability

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Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 600-641

  Williams, J R G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0068.2008.00694.x     Document Type: Article

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