Intertemporal Choice

Blackwell Handbook of Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 424-443

  Read, Daniel ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Analysis; Choice; Empirical research; Normative principle; Terminology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889310478     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470752937.ch21     Document Type: Chapter

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