William Stanley Jevons and Francis Ysidro Edgeworth: Two Pioneers of Happiness Economics
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عنوان ژورنال: Iberian Journal of the History of Economic Thought
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2386-5768
DOI: 10.5209/ijhe.66195