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Volume Title: Six Papers on the Size Distribution of Wealth and Income
Volume Author/Editor: Lee Soltow, ed.
Volume Publisher: NBER
Volume ISBN: 0-870-14488-X
Volume URL: http://www.nber.org/books/solt69-1
Publication Date: 1969
Chapter Title: Trends in the Size Distribution of Wealth in the Nineteenth Century: Some Speculations
Chapter Author: Robert E. Gallman
Chapter URL: http://www.nber.org/chapters/c4339
Chapter pages in book: (p. 1 - 30)
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