A simple model of crime waves, riots, and revolutions

Atlantic Economic Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 274-288

  Tabarrok, Alexander ^a  

^a BALL STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0009216975     PISSN: 01974254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02298409     Document Type: Review

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