Local Governments and Economic Freedom: A Test of the Leviathan Hypothesis

Adam Millsap, Brad Hobbs and Dean Stansel
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No 7334, Working Papers from George Mason University, Mercatus Center

Abstract: Geoffrey Brennan and James M. Buchanan, in their 1980 book The Power to Tax, hypothesize that “the potential for fiscal exploitation varies inversely with the number of competing governmental units in the inclusive territory.†This paper tests that theory

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Date: 2017-09-19
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