The way we play this game in history is working backwards through 
footnotes.  Since economists don't use footnotes like we do -- 
particularly since they don't always footnote the secondary 
sources -- it might be harder.  But you do get a sense of 
"parentage". 
     -- Mary Schweitzer, Dept. of History, Villanova University 
(on leave 1995-96) 
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