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Increasing Employment, Diminishing Returns, and Relative Shares*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2014

D. E. Horlacher
Affiliation:
Buckley University
E. Smolensky
Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania
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Notes and Memoranda
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Political Science Association 1960

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Footnotes

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The authors are grateful for the assistance of Professors Weintraub, Davidson and Brown, and Ronald Bodkin.

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