Wicksell on Deflation in the Early 1920s

History of Political Economy

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 218-275

  Boianovsky, Mauro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

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DOI: 10.1215/00182702-30-2-219     Document Type: Review

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