Why I do not believe in the cost-disease: Comment on Baumol

Journal of Cultural Economics

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 207-214

  Cowen, Tyler ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 39849108009     PISSN: 08852545     EISSN: 15736997     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10824-005-7214-1     Document Type: Review

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