"Together, the property rights and public choice schools show only that, if you start by assuming a purely individualistic model of human behavior and treat politics as if it were a pale imitation of the market, democracy will, indeed, make no sense."

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Source: The Meaning Of Privatization. Yale Law & Policy Review, Volume 6, 1988.

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Paul Starr

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