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Geoffrey Hodgson, The Wealth of a Nation: Institutional Foundations of English Capitalism, Princeton Economic History of the Western World Series (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023), pp. 304, $39.95 (hardcover). ISBN: 9780691247014.

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Geoffrey Hodgson, The Wealth of a Nation: Institutional Foundations of English Capitalism, Princeton Economic History of the Western World Series (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023), pp. 304, $39.95 (hardcover). ISBN: 9780691247014.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 May 2025

Felipe Almeida*
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Federal University of Parana

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