Globalization, De-Industrialization and Underdevelopment in the Third World Before the Modern Era

Revista de Historia Economica - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 9-36

  Williamson, Jeffrey G ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

F10; N10; O10

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EID: 84995604769     PISSN: 02126109     EISSN: 20413335     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0212610900000458     Document Type: Article

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