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Samuel Bowles, Microeconomics: Behavior, Institutions, and Evolution, Princeton University Press, 2004.

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Isogai, A., Uemura, H. Samuel Bowles, Microeconomics: Behavior, Institutions, and Evolution, Princeton University Press, 2004.. Evolut Inst Econ Rev 3, 285–296 (2007). https://doi.org/10.14441/eier.3.285

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