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Voting over a Distributed Ledger: An interdisciplinary perspective 分布式账本的投票:一个跨学科的视角

Foundations and Trends® in Microeconomics Pub Date : 2020-08-31 DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/34df5

A. Dhillon, Grammateia Kotsialou, P. McBurney, Luke Riley

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Performance and Pay in Professional Football 职业足球的表现与报酬

Foundations and Trends® in Microeconomics Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.1561/0700000072

Quinn A. W. Keefer, T. Kniesner

引用次数: 1