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The Grabbing Hand: Government Pathologies and Their Cures The Grabbing Hand: Government Pathologies and Their Cures
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Author:
Andrei Shleifer
Publisher:
Harvard University Press
Release Date:
2002
ISBN-10:
0674010140
ISBN-13:
9780674010147
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