Efficacy, Beliefs, and Investment in Step-Level Public Goods
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چکیده
منابع مشابه
Public Goods , Social Norms and Naive Beliefs ∗
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Mathematical Sociology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0022-250X,1545-5874
DOI: 10.1080/0022250x.2013.826214