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  1. Montana State University and Political Economy Research Center, 502 South 19th Avenue, Suite 211, 59715, Bozeman, MT

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The Political Economy Research Center, Bozeman, Montana, and the Earhart Foundation, Ann Arbor, Michigan, funded this research. The paper was presented in July, 1985 at the Western Economics Association annual meeting at Anaheim, California. John Baden and Ronald Johnson provided helpful suggestions, but the author is solely responsible for errors.

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Stroup, R.L. Buying misery with federal land. Public Choice 57, 69–77 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00052261

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