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Timothy Besley, Torsten Person: Pillars of prosperity: the political economics of development clusters

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011. xiv + 375 pages. USD 45.00 (cloth)

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Williamson, C.R. Timothy Besley, Torsten Person: Pillars of prosperity: the political economics of development clusters. Public Choice 153, 253–255 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-012-0006-1

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