Open and closed systems and the Cambridge school

Review of Social Economy

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 493-514

  Bigo, Vinca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Closed systems; Economics; Ontology; Open systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845807735     PISSN: 00346764     EISSN: 14701162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00346760601024468     Document Type: Review

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