Michael Brooks

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Toward a Clarification of the Block-Demsetz Debate on Psychic Income and Externalities

07/30/2014 Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics Michael Brooks

In this paper I clarify the long-running debate between Block and Demsetz over the potential impact of psychic income on the Coase Theorem. Each of the protagonists appear to have erred on how to integrate

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