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Globalization, Economic Development and Inequality
An Alternative Perspective
ISBN: 1858988918
ISBN-13: 9781858988917
Format: Hardcover
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Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub
Published date: 2004
Size: 6.25 x 9.25 inches
Weight: 1.5 pounds
Pages: 352
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Globalization, Economic Development and Inequality. An Alternative Perspective. New Horizons in Institutional and Evolutionary Economics
Reinert, Erik S. (Ed.)
Cheltenham, Elgar, 2004. . VIII 339 S., gr.okt., Ln., OU. . --Contributions by Erik S. Reinert, Arno M. Daastol, Wolfgang Drechsler, Jürgen G. Backhaus, Michael Hudson, Santiago Roca and Luis Simabuko, Carlota Perez, Chis Freeman, Dieter Ernst and Bengt-Ake Lundvall, David B. Audretsch, Adne Cappelen. . ISBN: 1858988918 . ( more information) Offered by Antiquariat Hohmann (Germany)
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