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What really caused the Great Recession?: rhyme and repetition in a theme from the 1930s

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What really caused the Great Recession? rhyme and repetition in a theme from the 1930s. / Snowden, Nick.
In: Cambridge Journal of Economics, Vol. 39, No. 5, 01.09.2015, p. 1245-1262.

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Snowden N. What really caused the Great Recession? rhyme and repetition in a theme from the 1930s. Cambridge Journal of Economics. 2015 Sept 1;39(5):1245-1262. Epub 2014 Dec 17. doi: 10.1093/cje/beu069

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Snowden, Nick. / What really caused the Great Recession? rhyme and repetition in a theme from the 1930s. In: Cambridge Journal of Economics. 2015 ; Vol. 39, No. 5. pp. 1245-1262.

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