Tensions in modern economics: The case of equilibrium analysis

Equilibrium in Economics: Scope and Limits

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 133-149

  Lawson, Tony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203086681     Document Type: Chapter

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