Brassey's Law and the Economy of High Wages in Nineteenth-Century Economics

History of Political Economy

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 582-606

  Petridis, Ray ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 1542742633     PISSN: 00182702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/00182702-28-4-583     Document Type: Article

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