Microeconomics (9th Edition) (Pearson Series in Economics)
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ISBN: 9780134184241
Author: Robert Pindyck, Daniel Rubinfeld
Publisher: PEARSON
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Identify the effect of changes in relative price of labor and capital on the expansion path.
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