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Abolafia, Mitchell. Making Markets : Opportunism and Restraint on Wall Street. Cambridge, MS: Harvard University Press, J996, 2J6 p.) Книжная рецензия

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The article was published on 2001-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 101 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Opportunism.

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