Coping with disaster: Morals, markets, and mutual insurance-using economic experiments to study recovery from Hurricane Mitch

The Social Economics of Poverty: On Identities, Communities, Groups, and Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 256-275

  Carter, Michael R ^a   Castillo, Marco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 84886272925     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203799659     Document Type: Chapter

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