A Constitutional Economics Perspective on Soft Paternalism

Kyklos

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 135-156

  Schnellenbach, Jan ^a  

^a BRANDENBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUREAUCRACY; COMPETITIVENESS; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICS; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; SOVEREIGNTY;

EID: 84957551043     PISSN: 00235962     EISSN: 14676435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/kykl.12106     Document Type: Article

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