Bestseller Lists and the Economics of Product Discovery

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• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Annual Review of Economics

• Publication date

  2017-08-02

• Fields of study

  Business, Economics

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  DOI 10.1146/ANNUREV-ECONOMICS-080614-115708
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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