Time and discounting in economic decision making

Economics and the Future: Time and Discounting in Private and Public Decision Making

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1-11

  Pannell, David J ^a   Schilizzi, Steven G M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

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