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Walter A. Friedman, Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First Economic Forecasters (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013), pp. 288, $29.95, hardcover. ISBN 978-0-69115-911-9.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 November 2015

Aris Spanos
Aris Spanos*
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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Journal of the History of Economic Thought , Volume 37 , Issue 4 , December 2015 , pp. 637 - 645
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