Optimality and the institutional structu
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Randall G. Holcombe; Edward O. Price
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Article
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1978
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Springer US
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English
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Whenever the economic efficiency of institutional structures is examined, the allocation of resources through the competitive market is used as a benchmark to judge efficiency. Because of the desirable characteristics of the competitive outcome, there is a natural tendency to ascribe these same char