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We are indebted to Gary Becker, Malcolm Burns, Richard Posner, George Stigler and Gordon Tullock, and to participants of the Human Capital Seminar at the University of Minnesota, for their helpful comments and suggestions. We gratefully acknowledge partial support from the Spencer Foundation through a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Minnesota (Ben-Zion) and from a research grant of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. We alone are responsible for the remaining errors.
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Ben-Zion, U., Eytan, Z. On money, votes, and policy in a democratic society. Public Choice 17, 1–10 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01718993
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