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Sleights of the Invisible Hand: Economists' Interventions in Political Theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2009

Philip Mirowski
Affiliation:
Department of Economics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556 and Visiting Scholar at New York University, International Center for Advanced Studies, USA.

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Review Essay
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Copyright © The History of Economics Society 2005

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