Munich Personal RePEc Archive
Cumulative Causation in a Structural
Economic Dynamic Approach to
Economic Growth and Uneven
Development
Araujo, Ricardo
University of Brasilia
29 March 2011
Online at
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/29960/
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