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Jeff E. Biddle, Progression through Regression: The Life Story of the Empirical Cobb-Douglas Production Function (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. xii + 334, $110 (hardcover). ISBN: 9781108492263.

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Jeff E. Biddle, Progression through Regression: The Life Story of the Empirical Cobb-Douglas Production Function (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. xii + 334, $110 (hardcover). ISBN: 9781108492263.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2023

Chung-Tang Cheng
Chung-Tang Cheng*
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National Taipei University
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Journal of the History of Economic Thought , Volume 45 , Issue 1 , March 2023 , pp. 162 - 165
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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the History of Economics Society

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