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The chemical industry is among the largest manufacturing industries; its products range from acids to intermediate chemicals such as synthetic fibres and plastics, and to final products such as soaps, cosmetics, paints and fertilizers. Perhaps as a result, the chemical industry is under-studied by economists, though not by economic and business historians (e.g., Hounshell and Smith 1988).
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Arora, A., Gambardella, A. (2018). Chemical Industry. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_2526
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