ECON: MICRO4 (New, Engaging Titles from 4LTR Press)
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ISBN: 9781285423548
Author: William A. McEachern
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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The affect on the firms with the advent in the industrial revolution and the types of organizations before this advent.
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