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3. Francesco Duina, The Social Construction of Free Trade. The European Union, NAFTA and MERCOSUR, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2006.
4. Paul DiMaggio and Walter Powell, “The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organization Fields,” American Sociological Preview 48(2), April 1983, pp. 147–160.
5. Gary Wynia, Politics and Planners. Economic Development Policy in Central America, Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1972.