Experts, ideas, and policy change: The Russell Sage Foundation and small loan reform, 1909-1941

Theory and Society

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 271-310

  Anderson, Elisabeth ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 42549095724     PISSN: 03042421     EISSN: 15737853     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11186-007-9050-0     Document Type: Article

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