The Rise of the Fourth Estate. How Newspapers Became Informative and Why It Mattered

Matthew Gentzkow, Edward L. Glaeser & Claudia Goldin
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Copyright 2006
ISBN 9780226299570
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Book: Corruption and Reform: Lessons from America's Economic History
Book editors: Edward L. Glaeser & Claudia Goldin
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press
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