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This paper attempts a rational explanation of the big stylized facts that were the hallmark of the socialist economies: high investment rates, high levels of environmental depletion and defense expenditure. In contrast to the dominant approach in comparative economics, which relies on bureaucratic and/or political preferences, a simple median-voter model yields this structure of national output as...
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