The myth of efficiency through market economics A biophysical analysis of tropical economies

Making World Development Work: Scientific Alternatives to Neoclassical Economic Theory

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 90-103

  Hall, Charles A S ^a   Ko, Jae Young ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b NONE

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