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The Illusion of Free Markets

Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order

Bernard E. Harcourt

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ISBN 9780674066168

Publication Date: 11/12/2012

336 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

7 tables, 12 graphs

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Bernard E. Harcourt is Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law at Columbia University and Directeur d’études at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris.

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