American Economic Association In Search of Homo Economicus : Behavioral Experiments in 15 Small - Scale Societies
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In Search of Homo Economicus: Behavioral Experiments in 15 Small-Scale Societies Author(s): Joseph Henrich, Robert Boyd, Samuel Bowles, Colin Camerer, Ernst Fehr, Herbert Gintis, Richard McElreath Source: The American Economic Review, Vol. 91, No. 2, Papers and Proceedings of the Hundred Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association (May, 2001), pp. 73-78 Published by: American Economic Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2677736 . Accessed: 08/02/2011 18:08
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تاریخ انتشار 2007