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Wealth and Secular Stagnation: The Role of Industrial Organization and Intellectual Property Rights
Herman Mark Schwartz
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences October 2016, 2 (6) 226-249; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2016.2.6.11
Herman Mark Schwartz
aProfessor in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia

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