'Crooks, thieves, and receivers': Transaction costs in nineteenth-century industrial Birmingham

Economic History Review

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 533-550

  Carnevali, Francesca ^a  

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Indexed keywords

HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; INDUSTRIAL HISTORY; NINETEENTH CENTURY; TRANSACTION COST;

BIRMINGHAM [ENGLAND]; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 11144291162     PISSN: 00130117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2004.00287.x     Document Type: Article

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