Ignorant speculation and immoral risks: Macheaths, turpins and the commercial classes in nineteenth-century theories of economic fluctuations

Manchester School

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 135-152

  Peart, Sandra J ^a  

^a BALDWIN WALLACE COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 18844455468     PISSN: 14636786     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9957.1996.tb00477.x     Document Type: Article

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