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The Calculus of consent: A Wicksellian retrospective

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I am grateful to Jürgen Backhaus for extensive discussions concerning the general subject of this paper and to Gordon Tullock for helpful suggestions on an earlier version of this paper.

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Wagner, R.E. The Calculus of consent: A Wicksellian retrospective. Public Choice 56, 153–166 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00115754

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