Collective action on the commons: The role of inequality

Inequality, Cooperation, and Environmental Sustainability

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 10-35

  Baland, Jean Marie ^a   Platteau, Jean Philippe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

^b NONE

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