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The Economics of Doctoral Education in Literature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Walter Cohen
Walter Cohen*
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Cornell University
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PMLA , Volume 115 , Issue 5 , October 2000 , pp. 1164 - 1187
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