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Boettke, P. 1993.Why Perestroika Failed: The Politics and Economics of Socialist Transformation. New York: Routledge.
Cowen, T. 2006. “How Far Back Should We Go?: Why Restitution Should Be Small,” inRetribution and Reparation in the Transition to Democracy, edited by Jon Elster. New York: Cambridge University Press.
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Kritz, N. J., ed. 1995.Transitional Justice: How Emerging Democracies Reckon with Former Regimes. Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace Press.
Tebble, A. 2001. “The Tables Turned: Wilt Chamberlain versus Robert Nozick on Rectification.”Economics and Philosophy 17, 1: 89–108.
Teitel, R. G. 2000.Transitional Justice. New York: Oxford University Press.
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Boettke, P.J., Coyne, C.J. Political economy of forgiveness. Soc 44, 53–59 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02819926
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