Democracy and Other Goods
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* This paper was prepared for the conference on Rethinking Democracy for a New Century, held at Yale University, 28 February-2 March, 1997. It has benefited from the comments of Brian Barry, Joshua Cohen, John Ferejohn, Paul Seabright, and Ian Shapiro. Research support from the Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics, Stockholm, is gratefully acknowledged. The paper is forthcoming in Ian Shapiro and Casiano Hacker-Cordon (eds.), Rethinking Democracy for a New Century (New York: Cambridge University Press), 1999.
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