The capital idea and the scope of economics

Review of Austrian Economics

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 145-167

  Lewin, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Capital; Economic growth; Production function; Stock; Structure; Theory of the firm

Indexed keywords

EID: 24144485933     PISSN: 08893047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11138-005-6824-3     Document Type: Article

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