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ROBBINS'S ESSAY AND THE AXIOMATIZATION OF ECONOMICS*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2009

ROGER E. BACKHOUSE  and
STEVEN G. MEDEMA
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A Symposium on The Nature and Significance of Economic Science by Lionel Robbins
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Journal of the History of Economic Thought , Volume 31 , Issue 4 , December 2009 , pp. 485 - 499
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Copyright © The History of Economics Society 2009

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