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A Sketch of British Economic Experience

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In the last chapter we made use of the concept of a ‘production possibility curve’ to distinguish two macroeconomic problems.

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Rowan, D.C. (1983). A Sketch of British Economic Experience. In: Output, Inflation and Growth. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06800-5_6

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