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  • In Pursuit of Leviathan: Technology, Institutions, Productivity, and Profits in American Whaling, 1816-1906 (University of Chicago Press, 1997), chap. 9, https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/pursuit-leviathan-technology-institutions-productivity-and-profits-american-whaling-1816-1906/product-markets.

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