Awards: A view from economics

The Economics of Ethics and the Ethics of Economics: Values, Markets and the State

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 73-88

  Frey, Bruno S ^a   Neckermann, Susanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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