Is government inevitable? Comment on Holcombe's analysis

Independent Review

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 543-549

  Leeson, Peter T ^a   Stringham, Edward P ^b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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