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Invariances and Diversities in the Evolution of Manufacturing Industries

The authors explore some basic properties of the size distributions of firms and of their growth processes both at aggregate and disaggregate levels. They also explore the relations between measures of size distributions and the nature of the underlying growth processes and discuss some admittedly unresolved puzzles.