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Handbook on the Economics of Happiness

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Bruni, Luigino ^a   Porta, Pier Luigi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

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EID: 84881801885     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4337/9781847204158.00005     Document Type: Editorial

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