Elite self-interest and economic decline in early modern Europe

American Sociological Review

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 346-372

  Lachmann, Richard ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); ECONOMIC HISTORY; ECONOMIC RELATIONS; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK;

ITALY; NETHERLANDS; SPAIN; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0041765131     PISSN: 00031224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1519728     Document Type: Article

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