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American Economic Review

ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)

Can Contract Theory Explain Social Preferences?

  • W. Bentley MacLeod
American Economic Review
vol. 97, no. 2, May 2007
(pp. 187–192)
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Citation

MacLeod, W Bentley. 2007. "Can Contract Theory Explain Social Preferences?" American Economic Review, 97 (2): 187–192. DOI: 10.1257/aer.97.2.187

JEL Classification

  • D63 Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
  • D86 Economics of Contract: Theory
  • Z13 Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Social and Economic Stratification