Sears, Roebuck in the Twentieth Century: Competition, Complementarities, and the Problem of Wasting Assets

Daniel Raff & Peter Temin
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Copyright 1999
ISBN 0-226-46832-1
Learning by Doing in Markets, Firms, and Countries
Book: Learning by Doing in Markets, Firms, and Countries
Book editors: Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Daniel M. G. Raff & Peter Temin
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press
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Sears Roebuck in the Twentieth Century: Competition, Complementarities, and the Problem of Wasting Assets
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Sears Roebuck and Co. faced similar challenges in the 1920s and the 1980s. On the strength of the early period's...

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