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Why Democracies Produce Efficient Results

Journal of Political Economy 1989 97(6), 1395-1424
By applying the standard tools of microeconomic analysis, the author argues that democratic markets work as well as economic markets. In particular, he shows that previous work has greatly exaggerated the existence of principal-agent and informational problems in electoral markets and has drawn incorrect conclusions.