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ON ROBINSON, COASE, AND “THE NATURE OF THE FIRM”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2008

LOWELL R. JACOBSEN
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Journal of the History of Economic Thought , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , March 2008 , pp. 65 - 80
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