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B. Hamminga: Katholieke Hogeschool Tilburg, Department of Philosophy, W. Balzer: Seminar für Philosophie, Logik und Wissenschaftstheorie, Universität München. Thanks are due to the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Science (NIAS) for providing an agreeable research environment to both authors in 1982/1983, to Dr. Th. A. F. Kuipers, and to Prof. Dr. P. H. M. Ruys.
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Hamminga, B., Balzer, W. The basic structure of neoclassical general equilibrium theory. Erkenntnis 25, 31–46 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00173555
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