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The Significance of the Founding Choices: Editors' Introduction

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

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  • Douglas A. Irwin
  • Richard Sylla

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  • Douglas A. Irwin & Richard Sylla, 2010. "The Significance of the Founding Choices: Editors' Introduction," NBER Chapters, in: Founding Choices: American Economic Policy in the 1790s, pages 1-21, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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