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Science 28 March 2008:
Vol. 319. no. 5871, pp. 1769 - 1770
DOI: 10.1126/science.1153904
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Perspectives

ECONOMICS:
When a Commodity Is Not Exactly a Commodity

Nancy Folbre

Economic transactions for services such as health and elder care are complicated by personal interactions and emotional connections.

Department of Economics, Unversity of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA. E-mail: folbre{at}econs.umass.edu

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