Wealth equality and collective action

Journal of Public Economics

Volumn 91, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1843-1874

  Bardhan, Pranab ^a   Ghatak, Maitreesh ^b   Karaivanov, Alexander ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Collective action; Inequality; Public goods

Indexed keywords

EID: 71049168426     PISSN: 00472727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2007.03.002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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