University governance and academic tenure: A property rights explanation by

Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics

Volumn 153, Issue 3, 1997, Pages

  Brown Jr , William O ^a  

^a CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE   (United States)

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