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Rethinking markets to rethink economics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 June 2023

Isabelle Guérin*
Affiliation:
IRD (French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development), CESSMA (Social Science Center Studies on the African, American and Asian Worlds, IRD-INALCO-University Paris Cite), Paris, France (Affiliated to the French Institute of Pondicherry (IFP))

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