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The Early Use of the Wicksell-Cobb-Douglas Function: A Comment on Weber

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2009

Bo Sandelin
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Journal of the History of Economic Thought , Volume 21 , Issue 2 , June 1999 , pp. 191 - 193
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