Rousseau’s Crusoe myth: the unlikely provenance of the neoclassical homo economicus
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Cultural Economy
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1753-0350,1753-0369
DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2016.1233903