Reproduction and scarcity: The population mechanism in classicism in the ‘jevonian revolution’

European Journal of the History of Economic Thought

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 34-57

  Mosselmans, Bert ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

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EID: 31444448177     PISSN: 09672567     EISSN: 14695936     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10427719900000124     Document Type: Article

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