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Comment on Paper by Easterlin

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2010

Allan G. Bouge
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Abstract

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Papers Presented at the Thirty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1976

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