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Rise of the Corporation Nation

In: Founding Choices: American Economic Policy in the 1790s

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  • Robert E. Wright, 2010. "Rise of the Corporation Nation," NBER Chapters, in: Founding Choices: American Economic Policy in the 1790s, pages 217-258, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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