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Educated or Indoctrinated? Remarks on the Influence of Economic Teaching on Students’ Attitudes Based on Evidence from the Public Good Game Experiment Cover

Educated or Indoctrinated? Remarks on the Influence of Economic Teaching on Students’ Attitudes Based on Evidence from the Public Good Game Experiment

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|Dec 2021

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/slgr-2021-0020 | Journal eISSN: 2199-6059 | Journal ISSN: 0860-150X
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