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The State: Agent or Proprieter

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Herschel I. Grossman

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This paper addresses the following question: Does characterizing the state to be an agent of its subjects 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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Paper provided by Brown University, Department of Economics in its series Working Papers with number 99-3.

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Date of creation: 02 Mar 1999
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