Loose-leaf Microeconomics With Connect Access Card
Loose-leaf Microeconomics With Connect Access Card
2nd Edition
ISBN: 9780077716325
Author: B. Douglas Bernheim Lewis & Virginia Eaton Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 1, Problem 6DQ
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Explain whether the assumption “people motivated by material self-interest” is always, usually, sometimes, rarely, or never a good one.

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