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REVIEW ESSAY: INCREASING HAPPINESS BY THINNING THE HERD

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2008

THOMAS C. LEONARD
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Journal of the History of Economic Thought , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , March 2008 , pp. 117 - 126
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Copyright © The History of Economics Society 2008

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