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Economic Growth, Population Theory, and Physiology: The Bearing of Long-Term Processes on the Making of Economic Policy

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  • Fogel, Robert W.

    (University of Chicago)

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Prize Lecture to the memory of Alfred Nobel, December 9, 1993

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Paper provided by Nobel Prize Committee in its series Nobel Prize in Economics documents with number 1993-1.

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Length: 34 pages
Date of creation: 09 Dec 1993
Handle: RePEc:ris:nobelp:1993_001
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Keywords: Economics History;

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