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Proceedings of a Symposium on Productivity Concepts and Measurement Problems: Welfare, Quality and Productivity in the Service Industries, Uppsala, May 1991: Introduction

Robert M. Solow
- 01 Jan 1992 - 
- Vol. 94, pp 5-7
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This article is published in The Scandinavian Journal of Economics.The article was published on 1992-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 6 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Productivity & Quality (business).

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