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Institutional Constraints and Local Community Formation
Originally published in American Economic Review
This paper advances the thesis that the economic analysis of local government and community formation should deemphasize the construction of normative models, and should concentrate instead on the positive analysis of alternative institutional arrangements.

This paper advances the thesis that the economic analysis of local government and community formation should deemphasize the construction of normative models, and should concentrate instead on the positive analysis of alternative institutional arrangements.
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