Paltering

Frederick Schauer; ;

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Paltering

Frederick Schauer

CO-AUTHORS Richard Zeckhauser

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Stanford University Press

DATE

2009

UVA Law Faculty Affiliations

Frederick Schauer

Citation

Frederick Schauer & Richard Zeckhauser, Paltering, in Brooke Harrington Deception: From Ancient Empires to Internet Dating, Stanford University Press, 38–54 (2009).

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