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Clifford Winston, Government Failure versus Market Failure

AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, Washington DC, 2006, 130 pp, $16.95, ISBN 978-0-8157-9390-8

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  1. For a recent dramatic example, look at the public outcry against “terrorism betting markets” (Hanson 2006; Wolfers and Zitzewitz 2004).

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Caplan, B. Clifford Winston, Government Failure versus Market Failure . Constit Polit Econ 18, 325–328 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10602-007-9026-0

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