The Economics of Lobbying and Special Interest Groups
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Die Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät der Universtität Zürich gestattet hierdurch die Drucklegung der vorliegen-den Dissertation, ohne damit zu den darin ausgesproch-enen Anschauungen Stellung zu nehmen.
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تاریخ انتشار 2002