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  1. Faculty of Law, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

    Tomáš Sobek

  2. International School of Economics, Kazakh-British Technical University, Almaty, Kazakhstan

    Josef Montag

  3. Faculty of Law, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

    Josef Montag

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    Alain Marciano

  2. Faculté d’Economie, Université de Montpellier and LAMETA-UMR CNRS, Montpellier, France

    Alain Marciano

  3. DiGSPES, University of Eastern Piedmont, Alessandria, Italy

    Giovanni Battista Ramello

  4. IEL, Torino, Italy

    Giovanni Battista Ramello

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Sobek, T., Montag, J. (2019). Value Incommensurability. In: Marciano, A., Ramello, G.B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Law and Economics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7753-2_748

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