Disciplining boundaries: Lionel Robbins, Max Weber, and the borderlands of economics, history, and psychology

Journal of the History of Economic Thought

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 500-517

  Maas, Harro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 77949623495     PISSN: 10538372     EISSN: 14699656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1053837209990289     Document Type: Article

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