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Victoria C. Woodhull: “All such kind of treatment deals with effects, and would never remedy an existing want, nor correct illegitimate…”

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All such kind of treatment deals with effects, and would never remedy an existing want, nor correct illegitimate practices.
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Victoria C. Woodhull

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Woodhull argues that superficial treatments of financial issues fail to address root causes of problems.

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