Entrepreneurship and the taste for discrimination

Journal of Evolutionary Economics

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 609-627

  Coyne, Christopher J ^a   Isaacs, Justin P ^b   Schwartz, Jeremy T ^b  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HAMPDEN SYDNEY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrimination; Entrepreneurship; Integration; Major league baseball; Symbolic value

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954217319     PISSN: 09369937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00191-009-0164-6     Document Type: Article

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