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A Note on New Estimates of the Distribution of Income in the 1920s

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2012

Gene Smiley
Affiliation:
Department of Economics, Marquette University, P. O. Box 1881, Milwaukee, WI 53201–1881. Phone (414) 288–5664. E-mail: smiley@mail.busadm.mu.edu.

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Copyright © The Economic History Association 2000

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