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Chapter 17 - Why did public debt originate in Europe?

from Part IV - Fragmented Political Ecologies and Institutional Innovation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2015

Andrew Monson
Affiliation:
New York University
Walter Scheidel
Affiliation:
Stanford University, California
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