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Provincializing economics: Jevons, Marshall and the colonial imaginaries of free trade

David L. BlaneyDepartment of Political Science, Macalester College, Saint Paul, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 1533-1554 | Published online: 27 Jul 2020

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