Can We Control the Boom?

Tags: Booms and Busts

05/05/2010 Articles of Interest Fritz Machlup

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Machlup deconstructs and examines the “Boom Economy” of the day.

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University of Minnesota Press, May 11, 1937; pp. 11-18.

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