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An ‘Austrian’ Perspective on Public Choice

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[F]rom the economic viewpoint, such ‘goods’ as family, church, love and the like are merely linguistic devices for a totality of concretely useful renditions of services. (Bohm-Bawerk, 1881, 133)

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Boettke, P., Leeson, P. (2004). An ‘Austrian’ Perspective on Public Choice. In: Rowley, C.K., Schneider, F. (eds) The Encyclopedia of Public Choice. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-306-47828-4_37

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