Retrospectives: Classical Family Values: Ending the Poor Laws as They Knew Them

Journal of Economic Perspectives

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 179-189

  Persky, Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

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EID: 0347510629     PISSN: 08953309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/jep.11.1.179     Document Type: Article

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