Rights, reform, and resources: Malthusian reflections on scarcity and old age

Handbook of Human Rights

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 206-220

  Turner, Bryan S ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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