Power comes with responsibility-or does it?

Public Choice

Volumn 148, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 459-470

  Bolle, Friedel ^a   Vogel, Claudia ^a  

^a EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY VIADRINA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Experiments; Public Good game; Responsibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052390810     PISSN: 00485829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11127-010-9665-y     Document Type: Article

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