The Hayek/Knight capital controversy: The irrelevance of roundaboutness, or purging processes in time?

History of Political Economy

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 469-490

  Cohen, Avi J ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.1215/00182702-35-3-469     Document Type: Article

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