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Identity, Trust and Altruism: Sociological Clues to Economic Development

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Basu, Kaushik (Cornell U)

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Much of economics is built on the assumption of individuals being driven by nothing but

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Paper provided by Cornell University, Center for Analytic Economics in its series Working Papers with number 06-05.

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  1. Fernando Aguiar & Pablo Branas-Garza & Maria Paz Espinosa & Luis M. Miller, 2007. "Personal Identity in the Dictator Game," Jena Economic Research Papers in Economics 2007-007, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Max-Planck-Institute of Economics, Thueringer Universitaets- und Landesbibliothek. [Downloadable!]
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