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Volume Title: Cost, Prices, and Profits: Their Cyclical Relations

Volume Author/Editor: Hultgren, Thor assisted by Maude R. Pech
Volume Publisher: UMI
Volume ISBN: 0-870-14098-1
Volume URL: http://www.nber.org/books/hult65-1
Publication Date: 1965
Chapter Title: FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE PROFITS
Chapter Author: Thor Hultgren
Chapter URL: http://www.nber.org/chapters/c1630
Chapter pages in book: (p. 1 - 12)

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