Is the world flat or round? Mapping changes in the taste for art

New Frontiers in the Economics of Innovation and New Technology: Essays in Honour of Paul A. David

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 158-187

  Swann, G M Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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