Can we transform the auto-industrial society?

New York Review of Books

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Rothschild, Emma ^a,b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Harvard ^*  (United States)

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EID: 68749112344     PISSN: 00287504     EISSN: 19447744     Source Type: Journal    
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