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- 58
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- 211-221
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Armen A. Alchian
(1950).
Uncertainty, Evolution, and Economic Theory.
Journal of Political Economy
, 58
(3)
, 211-221.
https://doi.org/10.1086/256940
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- DOI
- 10.1086/256940