The Behavioral Perspective on Pay What You Want Pricing*

Authors

  • Ernest Baskin

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22439/jba.v6i2.5414

Abstract

* Comment on Egbert, Henrik, “Pay-What-You-Want Pricing,” in this issue.

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2017-10-15

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