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  • Hardcover: 472 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press (9 Mar 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0198208537
  • ISBN-13: 978-0198208532
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16.4 x 3.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  (1 customer review)
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London Review of Books, March 8, 2007
'...Powerful...[Offer's book] uses the tools of economics to illuminate the myopic lens through which economics views the world.'

Financial Times, 7 April 2006
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