Epistemic design: Theory and data in Harvard’s department of social relations

Cold War Social Science: Knowledge Production, Liberal Democracy, and Human Nature

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 79-95

  Isaac, Joel ^a  

^a CHRIST S COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1057/9781137013224     Document Type: Chapter

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