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The Right Incentive: How Perceived Scarcity May Stop Population Growth in Time

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2016

Virginia Deane Abernethy
Virginia Deane Abernethy*
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Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, USA
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Politics and the Life Sciences , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , September 1997 , pp. 193 - 195
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