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5 - Valuing Intangibles and Other Non-Market Outcomes

from Part I - Making Decisions that Maximize Utility

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2017

M. Granger Morgan
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Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania
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Theory and Practice in Policy Analysis
Including Applications in Science and Technology
, pp. 118 - 154
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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