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What did it take for Lucas to set up ‘useful’ analogue systems in monetary business cycle theory? Cover

What did it take for Lucas to set up ‘useful’ analogue systems in monetary business cycle theory?

By: Peter Galbács  
Open Access
|Oct 2021

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18559/ebr.2021.3.5 | Journal eISSN: 2450-0097 | Journal ISSN: 2392-1641
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