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13 - Adam Smith’s Program for the Study of Human Socioeconomic Betterment

From Beneficence and Justice to the Wealth of Nations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2019

Vernon L. Smith  and
Bart J. Wilson
Vernon L. Smith
Affiliation:
Chapman University, California
Bart J. Wilson
Affiliation:
Chapman University, California
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Moral Sentiments and the Wealth of Nations for the Twenty-First Century
 , pp. 197 - 207
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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Kaplan, , , Hillard S., Schniter, Eric, Smith, Vernon L., and Wilson, Bart J.. 2018. “Experimental Tests of the Tolerated Theft and Risk-Reduction Theories of Resource Exchange,” Nature Human Behaviour 2(6): 383–88.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
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