All we’ve learnt: Colonial teachings and caribean underdevelopment

Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 589-615

  Storr, Virgil Henry ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Caribean development; Entrepreneur; Informal institutions; North; Schumpeter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84909634375     PISSN: 11456396     EISSN: 21531552     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1145-6396.1078     Document Type: Article

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