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Articles

Unnecessary radicalism: the limits of economic ideas in political thinking


The Swedish debate on balance of payments 1967–1976 and the question of fiscal austerity

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Pages 25-48 | Received 09 Sep 2021, Accepted 26 Jul 2022, Published online: 12 Sep 2022

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