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7 - Democracy, Rationality and Religion

from Part IV - Advances in Explaining and Assessing Institutional Evolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2018

Ulrich Witt
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Max Planck Institute, Jena
Andreas Chai
Affiliation:
Griffith University, Queensland
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Understanding Economic Change
Advances in Evolutionary Economics
, pp. 215 - 257
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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