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Financial Reform: Making the System Safer and Fairer

Michael S. Barr
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences January 2017, 3 (1) 2-18; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2017.3.1.01
Michael S. Barr
aRoy F. and Jean Humphrey Proffitt Professor of Law at the University of Michigan
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