Land and Power: Theory and Evidence from Chile
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It is the most cruel mockery to tell a man he may vote for A or B, when you know that he is so much under the influence of A, or the friends of A, that his voting for B would be attended with the destruction of him. It is not he who has the vote, really and substantially, but his landlord, for it is for his benefit and interest that it is exercised in the present system. David Ricardo ([1824], 1951–1973, 506) —
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