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Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Daniel M. G. Raff, Peter Temin, Beyond Markets and Hierarchies: Toward a New Synthesis of American Business History, The American Historical Review, Vol. 108, No. 2 (April 2003), pp. 404-433
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