Kicking the Malthusian vice: Lessons from the abolition of "welfare" in the late nineteenth century

Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 449-468

  Ziliak, Stephen T ^a  

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EID: 0031156387     PISSN: 10629769     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1062-9769(97)90037-5     Document Type: Article

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