Effective tension in robbins' economic methodology

Economica

Volumn 76, Issue SUPPL.1, 2009, Pages 831-844

  Hands, D Wade ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND   (United States)

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EID: 77949647520     PISSN: 00130427     EISSN: 14680335     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0335.2009.00791.x     Document Type: Article

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