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How New Was the New Era? The Public Sector in the 1920s

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2009

Jacob Metzer
Jacob Metzer
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The author is a senior lecturer in the Department of Economics at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91905, Israel.
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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 45 , Issue 1 , March 1985 , pp. 119 - 126
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1985

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