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The Welfare State for Historians. A Review Article

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Peter Baldwin
Peter Baldwin
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University of California, Los Angeles
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Imposing the Rules of Economic Behavior
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 34 , Issue 4 , October 1992, pp. 695 - 707
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1992

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