Reasons for Doing Good: Behavioural Explanations of Prosociality in Economics
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عنوان ژورنال: Economics & Sociology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2071-789X,2306-3459
DOI: 10.14254/2071-789x.2017/10-1/9