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The state: Agent or proprietor?

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This paper addresses the following question: Does characterizing the state to be an agent of its citizens provide a useful “as if” framework for positive analysis of economic policy? Or, can we understand economic policy only by explicitly characterizing the state as proprietary, the instrument of the ruling elite?

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  1. Department of Economics, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA (e-mail: Herschel_Grossman@Brown.edu) , , , , , , US

    Herschel I. Grossman

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Received: March 2, 1999/Accepted: April 19, 1999

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Grossman, H. The state: Agent or proprietor?. Econ Gov 1, 3–11 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s101010050002

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