Structure and agency in economic analysis: The case of Austrian economics and the material embeddedness of socio-economic life

The Elgar Companion to Economics and Philosophy

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 364-385

  Lewis, Paul A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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