The Optimum Enforcement of Laws
In: Essays in the Economics of Crime and Punishment
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- Stigler, George J, 1970. "The Optimum Enforcement of Laws," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 78(3), pages 526-536, May-June.
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