Markets and famines: A simple test with Indian data

Economics Letters

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 241-244

  Ó Gráda, Cormac ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Economic history; Famine; Markets; N; O

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031555188     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0165-1765(97)00228-0     Document Type: Article

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