Fifty years after Samuelson's "the pure theory of public expenditure": What are we left with?

Journal of the History of Economic Thought

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 439-460

  Pickhardt, Michael ^a  

^a CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

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EID: 33751537151     PISSN: 10538372     EISSN: 14699656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10427710601013939     Document Type: Review

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