A world ruled by Venus: On Henry L. Moore's transfer of periodogram analysis from physics to economics

History of Political Economy

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 722-752

  Le Gall, Philippe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1 PANTHÉON SORBONNE   (France)

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