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Finance and industrial development. Part I: the United States and the United Kingdom1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 September 2008

William Lazonick  and
Mary O'Sullivan
William Lazonick
Affiliation:
University of Massachusetts Lowell, University of Tokyo and INSEAD
Mary O'Sullivan
Affiliation:
Harvard University and INSEAD
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Financial History Review , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , April 1997 , pp. 7 - 29
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