Inequality, poverty, and the fisc in twentieth-century America

Journal of Post Keynesian Economics

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 51-75

  Plotnick, Robert D ^a   Smolensky, Eugene ^b   Evenhouse, Eirik ^c   Reilly, Siobhan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NONE

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EID: 0032328575     PISSN: 01603477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01603477.1998.11490179     Document Type: Article

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