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Nancy Cartwright on Hunting Causes - Hunting Causes and Using Them: Approaches in Philosophy and Economics, Nancy Cartwright. Cambridge University Press, 2008, x + 270 pages.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2010

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Economics & Philosophy , Volume 26 , Issue 1 , March 2010 , pp. 69 - 77
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