Understanding the rural third sector: Insights from Veblen and Bogdanov

Kybernetes

Volumn 41, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 177-188

  Valentinov, Vladislav ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN TRANSITION ECONOMIES IAMO   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bogdanov; Institutional economics; Rural development; Rural economies; Systems theory; Tektology; Third sector; Veblen

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859167175     PISSN: 0368492X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03684921211213016     Document Type: Article

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