Excessive ambitions

Capitalism and Society

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Elster, Jon ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (France)

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EID: 72849112599     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19320213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1932-0213.1055     Document Type: Article

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