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Citizens can use media to solve political agency problems. To be useful for this purpose, however, media must be free. Freer media are strongly associated with superior political-economic outcomes and may be especially important to fostering political-economic improvement in the developing world.
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Leeson, P.T., Pierson, J. (2019). Media. In: Marciano, A., Ramello, G.B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Law and Economics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7753-2_315
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