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Pommerehne, Schneider and Frey teach at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and Gilbert at the University of Paris-X-Nanterre, France. The topics of this paper have been discussed with a great number of economists. Useful comments were received from Bernard Bobe (Paris), René L. Frey (Basel), Gebhard Kirchgaessner (Zurich), Michel Mouillard (Paris), Willi Nagel (Konstanz), Frederic L. Pryor (Swarthmore), Kurt W. Rothschild (Linz), Hannelore Weck-Hannemann (Zurich) and Burton A. Weisbrod (Madison).
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Pommerehne, W.W., Schneider, F., Gilbert, G. et al. Concordia discors: Or: What do economists think?. Theor Decis 16, 251–308 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00134650
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