Chapter 2: "Free Trade and Banking: Beyond the Instabilities of Interdependency," Nisha Thirumurthy

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  2. ibid., page 108.
  3. ibid.
  4. ibid., page 10.
  5. ibid.
  6. ibid.
  7. ibid.
  8. ibid.
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  11. ibid.
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  13. ibid.
  14. ibid.
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  16. ibid.
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  19. ibid., 186.
  20. Trade Commission of Mexico in Toronto, op. cit.
  21. Gruben, ibid., page 26.
  22. ibid., page 24.
  23. Gruben, ibid., page 26.
  24. Ibid.
  25. Ibid.
  26. Ibid.
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  33. Gruben, ibid., page 27.
  34. ibid.
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  36. ibid., 111.
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  42. ibid.
  43. "Trickle-up economics," op. cit.