Cooperation: Evidence from experiments

Handbook of Social Capital: The Troika of Sociology, Political Science and Economics

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 36-56

  Poulsen, Anders ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

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