Assessing Parfit’s Repugnant Conclusion within a canonical endogenous growth set-up
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Assessing the Parfit’s Repugnant Conclusion within a canonical endogenous growth set-up∗
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Population Economics
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0933-1433,1432-1475
DOI: 10.1007/s00148-011-0384-6