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of Economic Research
Volume Title: Wesley Clair Mitchell: The Economic Scientist
Volume Author/Editor: Arthur F. Burns, ed.
Volume Publisher: NBER
Volume ISBN: 0-87014-052-3
Volume URL: http://www.nber.org/books/burn52-1
Publication Date: 1952
Chapter Title: The Economic Naturalist
Chapter Author: Edwin B. Wilson
Chapter URL: http://www.nber.org/chapters/c3103
Chapter pages in book: (p. 283 - 291)






























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