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- 3
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- 2
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- 165-202
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Paul A. David,
Julie Ann Bunn
(1988).
The economics of gateway technologies and network evolution: Lessons from electricity supply history.
Information Economics and Policy
, 3
(2)
, 165-202.
https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-6245(88)90024-8
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- 10.1016/0167-6245(88)90024-8