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Part V - Evolutionary Perspectives on Welfare and Sustainability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2018

Ulrich Witt
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Max Planck Institute, Jena
Andreas Chai
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Griffith University, Queensland
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Understanding Economic Change
Advances in Evolutionary Economics
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Print publication year: 2018

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