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War Finance and Austrian Business Cycle Theory: The Netherlands’ Wisselbank in the War of the Austrian Succession and the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War Cover

War Finance and Austrian Business Cycle Theory: The Netherlands’ Wisselbank in the War of the Austrian Succession and the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War

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|May 2026

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Submitted on: Oct 1, 2024
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Published on: May 29, 2026
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