Protecting small savers: The political economy of economic security

Ruling Passions: Political Economy in Nineteenth-Century America

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 126-145

  Wadhwani, R Daniel ^a  

^a HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

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