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From the ‘planning euphoria’ to the ‘bitter economic truth’: the transmission of economic ideas into German labour market policies in the 1960s and 2000s

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Pages 476-493 | Received 14 Dec 2018, Accepted 26 Jun 2019, Published online: 22 Oct 2019

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