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Avner Offer, Understanding the Private-Public Divide: Markets, Governments and Time Horizons

Cambridge University Press, 2022, 200 pp., ISBN: 978-1108496209

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Coyle, D. Avner Offer, Understanding the Private-Public Divide: Markets, Governments and Time Horizons. Soc 60, 802–804 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-023-00881-6

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