"True Believers" or numerical terrorism at the nuclear power plant

Jahrbucher fur Nationalokonomie und Statistik

Volumn 231, Issue 5-6, 2011, Pages 608-620

  Krämer, Walter ^a   Arminger, Gerhard ^b  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

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EID: 84855165191     PISSN: 00214027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/jbnst-2011-5-604     Document Type: Article

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