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I would like to thank C. Addison Hickman and Laurence S. Moss for valuable criticisms of an earlier draft of this paper.
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Bostaph, S. The methodological debate between carl menger and the german historicists. Atlantic Economic Journal 6, 3–16 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02313305
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