Chancing an interpretation: Slutsky's random cycles revisited

European Journal of the History of Economic Thought

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 411-432

  Barnett, Vincent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Business cycles; Econometrics; Frisch; Kuznets; Statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748854096     PISSN: 09672567     EISSN: 14695936     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09672560600875596     Document Type: Review

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