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How many languages do we need? : the economics of linguistic diversity / Victor Ginsburgh, Shlomo Weber.

Title
How many languages do we need? : the economics of linguistic diversity / Victor Ginsburgh, Shlomo Weber.
Author
Ginsburgh, Victor
Publication
Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2011.

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Additional Authors
Weber, Shlomo.
Description
viii, 232 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-221) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
My language is my homeland -- Linguistics policies, disenfranchisement, and standardization -- Linguistic, genetic, and cultural distances : how far is nostratic? -- Distances matter -- Individual communicative benefits -- Diversity and disenfranchisement indices -- Diversity and disenfranchisement : applications -- Multilingualism in the European Union : a case study in linguistic policy.
ISBN
  • 9780691136899
  • 0691136890
LCCN
^^2010942941
OCLC
  • 679940598
  • SCSB-11962719
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library