Principles of Economics (Second Edition)
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Author: coppock, Lee; Mateer, Dirk
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Chapter 27, Problem 2QFR
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The numeric evidence justifying the effect that Great Depression was inferior than the Great Recession.
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