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Rational Choice History: A Case of Excessive Ambition - Analytic Narratives. By Robert H. Bates, Avner Greif, Margaret Levi, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, and Barry Weingast. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998. 296p. $65.00 cloth, $22.95 paper.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2000

Jon Elster
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American Political Science Review , Volume 94 , Issue 3 , September 2000 , pp. 685 - 695
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