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German economist and statistician; born at Eschweiler, Germany, 17 July 1837; died at Gottingen, Germany, 24 August 1914.
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Zabell, S.L. (2018). Lexis, Wilhelm (1837–1914). In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_948
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