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Associate Professor of Economics, Babson College. An early version of this paper was presented at the June 1976 meeting of the Western Economic Association in San Francisco.
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Moss, L.S. Optimal jurisdictions and the economic theory of the state: Or, anarchy and one-world government are only corner solutions. Public Choice 35, 17–26 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00154745
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