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Comment on “dealing With Discounting”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2009

Magnus Johannesson
Affiliation:
Department of Health and Society, Linkoping University, 581 83 Linköping, Sweden
Lars-Ake Levin
Affiliation:
Department of Health and Society, Linkoping University, 581 83 Linköping, Sweden
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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