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Fairness and The Assumptions of Economics

Article  in  The Journal of Business · October 1986

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Fairness and the Assumptions of Economics

Daniel Kahneman; Jack L. Knetsch; Richard H. Thaler

The Journal of Business, Vol. 59, No. 4, Part 2: The Behavioral Foundations of EconomicTheory. (Oct., 1986), pp. S285-S300.

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