The booming economics-made-fun genre: more than having fun, but less than economics imperialism
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The booming economics-made-fun genre: more than having fun, but less than economics imperialism
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عنوان ژورنال: Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1876-9098
DOI: 10.23941/ejpe.v2i1.25