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Edmund W. Kitch

Framing Hypothesis

Edmund W. Kitch
Date
1992
Citation
Edmund W. Kitch, Framing Hypothesis, in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Money and Finance, Macmillan, 184–185 (1992).
UVA Law Faculty Affiliations
Edmund W. Kitch
John W. Glynn Jr. Law & Business Program
Intellectual Property
Center for Public Law and Political Economy
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