Economics of suicide

Economics Uncut: A Complete Guide to Life, Death and Misadventure

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 229-263

  Cameron, Samuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

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