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The role of fractional-reserve banking and financial intermediation in the money supply process: Keynes and the Austrians

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Cochran, J.P., Call, S.T. The role of fractional-reserve banking and financial intermediation in the money supply process: Keynes and the Austrians. Quart J Austrian Econ 1, 29–40 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12113-998-1015-2

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