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Finance and industrial development: evolution to market control. Part II: Japan and Germany1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 September 2008

William Lazonick
Affiliation:
University of Massachusetts Lowell, University of Tokyo and INSEAD
Mary O'sullivan
Affiliation:
INSEAD

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