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Understating the economic consequences of wartime mobilization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2025

Vincent Geloso*
Affiliation:
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
*

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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Social Science History Association

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