The booming economics-made-fun genre: More than having fun, but less than economics imperialism

Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 70-99

  Vromen, Jack J ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Economics imperialism; Economics made fun; Freakonomics; Pop economics; Sociology of economics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867218686     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18769098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.23941/ejpe.v2i1.25     Document Type: Article

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