What's yours is mine: Rent-seeking and the common law

Public Choice

Volumn 111, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 399-415

  Osborne, Evan ^a  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0141787906     PISSN: 00485829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1014912314741     Document Type: Article

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