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Robert L. Bish is Director of Research, Institute for Urban Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA.
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Bish, R.L. Political and organizational failures — Difficult to distinguish. A comment on the paper by Young in JCP, 1, 1977/3. J Consum Policy 1, 390–391 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02179640
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